All God Asks

All God Asks
Jesus when asked,
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:

" ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart 

and with all your soul 

and with all your mind.' 

This is the first and greatest commandment. 

And the second is like it: 

‘Love your neighbour as yourself.' 

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." 

                                                                                                Matthew 22:36-40.

The apostle Paul defines love this way,

"Love is patient, love is kind. 

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,

 it is not easily angered,

 it keeps no record of wrongs.

 Love does not delight in evil

 but rejoices with the truth.  

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

Love never fails....

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. 

But the greatest of these is love."  

                                                      1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.

While you can define love as the apostle Paul so eloquently does in 1Corinthians 13. It is very difficult to quantify love. The only way we can quantify love in human terms I believe is by seeing how far one would go for the person we love.
In the case of Jesus the apostle Paul tells us,
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.  
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:6-8.
This is true love.
C. S. Lewis states,
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” C.S. Lewis.
God through Jesus showed in a very human way how He cares not just for mankind as a whole but for the individual.
All he asks in return is that individuals have faith in Him.
Please think about it.