That seems like a lot...

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (English Standard Version)

⁵You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ⁷^C)"> You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ⁸^D)"> You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹^E)"> You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Committing everything I am, and do to God is hard. Loving God with all of me is hard.
That's probably why the passage says to love God first, because it's impossible to live a life dedicated to God without first loving Him.
Thinking on the first verse, I know I love God with my soul, because through God I have been set free from sin. With my heart I love Him because I have been healed from many hurts. With my might? Not much lovin' going on there. Sure, I do stuff at church, but those merely have the label of being for God. I need my whole life to have one purpose, which is to be an offering to God. My offering is humility, and obedience-1 Samuel 15:22. I can't love God because I get caught up in doing what I think is right, rather than what He commands me to do, and "good intentions" blind me from seeing God. If I loved God more, and ignored myself, I could see Him for what He is, which is beautiful. Maybe it is then that I would declare God in all that I do. It's hard not to talk of something I know to be awesome. Like my mom's food. I would talk day and night about it if I could.
What about God? I have seen with my own eyes what He can and has done for me, and I have heard His voice. Why not wear His name as a banner on my forehead? In my relationships, in school?
God is more than that Awesome.

My what?

So, I'm reading through the Old Testament law, right now. I'm in Numbers. These books are more interesting than I remember. God didn't change from the Old to the New Testament, nor is He any different today.

I found this verse to be particularly interesting in my reading today:

Numbers 18:20 (New King James Version)

²⁰ Then the LORD said to Aaron: “You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

In this chapter God is addressing Aaron and the Levites, and He's telling them what being solely for God looks like, etc.
The them God is referring to are the other tribes of Israel. It struck me because here God is saying that He is the reward for the Levites. Not land and possessions the whole nation might get from battles. Not glory, nothing. Their inheritance, all that they will have forever is God, and what He gives to them.
THAT'S CRAZY! In a great way.
To be chosen by God to be His only, and to dwell with Him is pretty awesome.

The cool thing is, I am not a Levite. There isn't even a person with the name Levi in my family, on either side. I would probably have been classified as a Gentile. Yet, God has chosen me to be His only, and to be with Him. God wants to be my life and love, and compared to the world Dios es El mejor de mejor.
Thank you, Jesus, for dying for me that I could have God as my life and love.