Am I thankfully obedient?

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)

Until you know that you don’t love God the way you should, you’re not going to ask for forgiveness. And until you know that you don’t love God the way you should, you’re not going to ask for enablement to do that. But when you realize that you don’t love God with everything you are, and the supreme goal of your life is not to demonstrate love to Him, until you realize that, you don’t know you need a Savior. When you do, you’ll know, and it’s then that Christ comes into your life. The past is forgiven and the future enablement is granted. - John MacArthur

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and without fault until the day of Christ, having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. - Philippians 1:9-11 (LSB)

So we can say it this way:
Yes, if you’re a Christian you love God.
Yes, you love God with everything you are.
Yes, you could love God even more.
And though it is a love that meditates on His glory,
and a love that trusts in His power,
and a love that seeks His fellowship,
and a love that secures peace with Him,
and a love that is sensitive to His feelings,
and loves what He loves,
and loves whom He loves,
and hates what He hates,
and grieves over sin,
and rejects the world,
and loves the Savior,
most of all, it is a love that obeys God’s Word. - John MacArthur

Is my love for God and thankfulness for all He has done validated by my obedience to His Word?

How would those that observe my conduct and hear my words answer that question?

You shall know therefore that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments - Deuteronomy 7:9 (LSB)

Be Encouraged to express your thanksgiving to God in your obedience to His Word.


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