One of which is "you must love God". So, if you love God, you will love God.
The commandment was to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. Just "loving God" seems like simple affection, and the latter seems fervent and passionate.
The point of the passage is that all of the commandments can be encompassed into those two--meaning, if you love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself, you'll naturally fulfill all the other rules (in the law).
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Good question, but it is one of God's commandments, right?
We still have the option to obey or disobey.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
You missed it! Jesus said that the first of all commandments was Deut. 6:4. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is one! AND you shall love Him with all your heart soul mind and strength......etc.
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"Those who go after the "Sauls" among us often slay the Davids among us." Gene Edwards
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