Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

The first, and greatest commandment is that we love the Lord our God with everything we are and everything we have.

To many, this may be a tall order as they struggle to love the people around them or even themselves; which is why Jesus related the love for each other as being as important.

We tend to measure our love for others in one way or another. What God is saying is we should not try to measure it or even think it through – just simply love Him with everything!

Psalm 37:30 The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.

The closer we draw to God, the more we will be able to rely on His strength and power in our lives. The more we do that the less likely we are to lose it all and go off the rails!

God wants to keep us close so He can look after us, guide us and keep us from evil things. As we grow closer we become more aware of His presence.

As we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us and keep us, we also find we speak more of Him and less of the world; we begin to think more like a child of God than a child of this earth!

Luke 6:45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Once again Jesus teaches us that our own mouths are going to let us down at some stage in our lives.

He further warns us the things which come out of our mouths will most likely echo what is deep in our hearts; when we get angry, we say things because that is how we actually feel deep inside.

It is sometimes only after we say things we realise what is in our own hearts; then we can make amends and change with God’s help!