How do we learn to love God? 

Jesus answered that question in his Sermon on the Mount saying, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

At the end of each day we can ask ourselves, “When did I see God today? How did I enjoy, share, and respond to God’s unfathomable love?” 

To fear the Lord is to thoughtfully consider our eternal God with the reverent love and honor we owe him. It's to return the love that he has lavished on us. 

The psalmist taught that loving God in this way is the beginning of wisdom. 

Our goal should be to reverently love God in the ways that will lead us to walk in his presence and be filled with his wisdom. That is how we are most able to lead a pure life—a life that can see God and love him with a pure heart. 

Let’s begin our year with the “beginning of wisdom” as we love and honor our amazing God.

Our attention is easily drawn to an older couple who strolls through the church, holding hands, still obviously in love with one another. Their love illustrates God’s plan for marriage because the “two have become one.” That’s a love most of us aspire to have and is the earthly example of the love relationship God wants to have with each of us. 

People who maintain a strong love relationship with God naturally reveal God’s love to others. When we fill our days with God, he fills our moments with his love because “God is love.” His nature, character, and presence in our lives serve as an expression of his pure and unconditional love.

Maybe someone glimpsed God’s love in you today simply because you allowed his love to be present in your thoughts and choices. When two become one, a unique love is born. That is the relationship God desires to have with us. Our attention is easily drawn to people who live with that love for one another. 

To know God is to understand that He is love, and that is the beginning of wisdom.