Dont Love Anyone More Than God

Don t love anyone more than god.

Dont love anyone more than god. For families does this sound a bit divisive. So now you have two powerful deep life transforming commands. And he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 37 he that loveth father or mother more than me the words are important partly in themselves partly as explaining the stronger phrase of luke 14 26 27 which speaks of a man hating father or mother as a condition of discipleship where two affections come into collision the weaker must give way.

When we or anything else if that s possible become our supreme love instead of god love becomes distorted and diseased. Once you have your affections lined up properly and love me more than anything or anyone then and only then will you be capable of meeting nancy s needs loving jesus more. The point which jesus is making is that the gospel of jesus christ will make you or break you depending on how you might react to it. For god to love something or someone more than himself would be inappropriate perverted immoral.

But it s also like football because even though we all watch the same touchdown and erupt together wild with joy some fans are happier than others. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Christians are sometimes persecuted and. Anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me matthew 10 34 37 niv.

We all share the same great feast so no matter the different sizes of our appetites we all end up happy and full with no need to compare who got more. And love jesus more than you love children more than you love parents surely more than you love anything. Whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me matthew 10 37. A love that is stronger than anything you will ever be able to comprehend.

That s why any thought that tells you i don t love you is a lie. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. A love that is stronger than death. And though the man may not and ought not to cease to love yet he must act as if he hated.

That s also why any thought or feeling which tells you i m not there for you is a lie. Like god we must love him supremely in order to love everything else best. This includes our love for ourselves and our own life. God s love is something like that.

The horrible result of not loving god most. This is repeated in matthew 10 37 where the translation is a bit different but the meaning is the same. Well jesus said that he would divide families luke 12 49 53. 10 37 if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters yes and even his own life he cannot be my disciple.