Gospel of Love Video Series (49): Love for God is not a team effort

What is the most important is this personal relationship with the Supreme Lord. And every one of us we are going to take this relationship with us wherever we go. That relationship with God is going to be with you when you wake up in the morning, when you are sleeping at night. It is going to be with you when you leave this body. That is going to be there. It is an eternal relationship. The relationships of this world are not eternal. They can support my eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Or they may cause me to more and more forget my eternal relationship with God.

Ultimately, real religion means, that which I deal with alone. No one is going to be able to help me at the time of death if my relationship with that person is one of a temporary nature.

The fact is if you love God, for all practical purposes you are with God. Loving God, having love for God in your heart and being with God are not separate. Love for God is God. That is the kingdom of God. Everything in connection with God is absolute, so if one has a loving relationship with God, even though they are in the material world and they have a material body now, they are in fact in a sense in the kingdom of God because they are with God. So, the kingdom of God is not just a geographical location. The kingdom of God is love for God. Love for God is the kingdom of God. Therefore, it is said by Jesus that, “The kingdom of God is within.” (Luke 17:20-21).