Love God with Your Mind

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Matthew 22:37

What does loving God with all your mind mean? It means to love Him with what you think, to love Him in what you allow to go through your brain.

A lot of people say they love God with all their heart, but then they stop there. He doesn’t want just your heart; He wants your mind, your will, your emotions—every part of you.

 You need to say, “God, my mind doesn’t belong to me. It doesn’t belong to the world anymore. It belongs to You. I want to love You by what I allow my brain to think about. I want to honor You by making sure that the things I think on will give You glory.” 

God doesn’t want to occupy just your heart, or just your will and emotions; He wants to occupy your mind. The world gives you plenty of things to think about, plenty of things that will distract you from thinking about the deep things of God. But if He really is the incredible God that He says He is—if He really has made the heavens and the earth and has done all of these mind-blowing things—He ought to be the One who totally lures your mind. He wants to be what you think about more than anything else. 

Ask yourself, If people could see all of my thoughts on an overhead projector, would they be able to tell that I really love God? Would that prove that I’m loving God with my mind?

Take a minute or two to write down a few things that you can think about today to practice loving God with all your mind. 

This article was adapted from Ron Luce’s book Connecting With God.