Love God and Keep His Decrees

 

For I command you this day to love the Lord your God and to keep his commands, decrees, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy.

Deuteronomy 30:16 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/deu.30.16.NLT

God wants me to love him, not just say, "I love God," or "I love Jesus", but I need to do what he says and follow Him with all my heart, soul, and strength.  I need to walk in His ways if I want to go to Heaven.  God will bless me if I obey Him and His Word.

I must be a good example of what it means to love God and keep His commandments.

Stimulate My Wholesome Thinking

This is my second letter to you, dear friends, and in both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory.

2 Peter 3:1 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/2pe.3.1.NLT

God's Word can stimulate my wholesome thinking by staying focused on it and keeping Him as the highest priority in my life.

Help People and Bring Glory to God

Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

1 Peter 4:11 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.4.11.NLT

I must use my gift of helping others to bring glory to God through Jesus Christ.  I must help people with all my strength and energy.

Worship Christ as Lord of my Life

 

Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ.

1 Peter 3:15‭-‬16 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.3.15-16.NLT

I must put Jesus first in my life.  I must be ready to explain my faith and do it in a good manner.  I must treat Jesus as Lord of my life.  He's not just a part of my life, He's the most important part of my life.