Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the Lord your God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy might.
The primary response to God is simple, yet profound and powerful: love God. When we love God, as the first and greatest commandment says we will, then keeping all the other commandments follows naturally, and life is better. “We love Him because He first loved us” To know Him is to love Him; the closer we know Him, the more dearly we will love Him. For God is love. He loved us this way: He gave His Son, and with Him has given us all things.
Loving God first and above all things leads to desiring to keep His commandments which leads to a blessed life. And it all begins with believing God, receiving Jesus, and knowing Him better and better. This is a lifelong process, and it still goes on and grows through eternity. In fact, God’s love is so unfathomable to our human minds that we cannot totally comprehend it this side of death.
God begins it all by loving us, we respond by loving Him, and this mutual love grows forever. We begin to love Him from the moment we are baptized and believe, and the more time we spend with Him, listening to the gospel, the more we love Him. We act out that love with all that we are: body, soul, and spirit (heart, soul, and might). As God’s Love affects everything we are, and every part of life, so our love, as a response of faith, affects every aspect of our whole life.