We continue the idea of the magazine quiz. What can these questions reveal about my love and devotion to God? You are probably not taking this quiz with a group of friends. However, each of us should take a moment to evaluate our commitment to God.
Quiz, how do I know I really love God?
6. Do I seek to please Him?
This is something that starts with faith (Heb. 11:6). We should make it our “aim” to please the Lord (2 Cor. 5:9). If we love Him, we will keep His commandments (John 14:15).
7. Do I love those that are close to Him?
It is hard to love someone and not those with whom they associate. The same is true with God. “If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also” (1 John 4:20-21).
8. Am I divided in my devotion?
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 foremost commandment” (Matt. 22:37-38). Just as you can’t divide heart, soul and mind, there should be no division in our devotion (Matt. 6:24).
9. Am I willing to make sacrifices?
It is hard to maintain a relationship if we are not willing to do for others what they do for us. It quickly becomes a one-sided relationship. “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). He gave everything. Are we willing to do the same? “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13; cf. Eph. 5:25)
10. Am I willing to make this a lifelong commitment?
“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever” (1 John 2:15-17).
The Bible makes it very plain. Our devotion to God should be unwavering. This quiz format may have been helpful in turning the perspective inward and examining our love.