Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 26.

Could your attitude toward the Lord accurately be described as love?

Listen closely for a refresher on the basics of what it truly means to love God.

Do you love God? I knew that's what you were going to say.

If you ask the average person on the street I hear, do you love God?

They're probably going to say the same thing. Yes, I do.

If you ask them to describe the God that they love, you'd be absolutely shocked at what some people would say.

There are a lot of people who think they love God. They don't even know it.

There are a lot of people who think they love God who really have been saved.

But when it comes to loving Him, they don't really love Him.

They don't understand that. They don't realize that, but they don't.

And so I'd ask you this simple question. What characteristics are there in your life?

Then when somebody sees you and watches you, they would see by your lifestyle that you love God.

And I would ask you the question, when you look for characteristics and other people, what do you look for?

That indicate that person loves God. There's a lot of mistaken ideas about loving God and about love in general.

In fact, a lot of people don't know how to love anybody. They wish they did, but they don't.

And the tragedy is that many people will live their entire life never feeling loved.

And many people will live their entire life never knowing how to love someone else.

And when you look at the Scriptures and look at what Jesus said,

and how he refers to the Old Testament and where love fit in God's big plan for the nation of Israel

and for all of us, you will see how very important it is. So what are your attorney if you go to the 22nd chapter of Matthew?

And what's happening here is that the Pharisees have been challenging Jesus.

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