5. _"We should love God,"_ We all love our parents. We esteem them highly, our hearts cling to them, because we know how dearly they love us, and that they are doing all they can for us. God ought to be dearer to us than everything in this world, dearer even than our parents. He is our heavenly Father, our greatest Benefactor. From Him we receive all that we have and enjoy. He loves us first, He has so loved us that He gave His dear Son for us. _So we should love Him and cling to Him with our whole heart._ 6. _"This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments."_ 1 John 5,3. If we love God, we shall gladly do as He bids us do. Thus our _Lord Jesus_ loved His heavenly Father. He says: _"I will delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy Law is within My heart."_ Ps. 40,8. _Abraham_ loved God, and therefore he was willing to sacrifice his only son for God's sake. Gen. 22,1-12. _We love God when we cling to Him with our whole heart and from love to Him fulfil His commandments._ 7. _"We should trust in God."_ To trust in God means to put our confidence in God and His promises, to be assured that He will give us what we need and what is good for us in this life and in the life to come. We trust in God when we believe that He will not forsake us in the day of trouble, that whatever He sends us, though it seem evil, will be for our good. Our Father can and will give us only good and perfect gifts. Thus _David_ trusted in the Lord when he went forth to conquer Goliath. 1 Sam. 17. Thus, too _those three men _trusted in God who suffered themselves to be cast into the fiery furnace rather than deny their God. Dan. 3. _We trust in God when we put our confidence in Him and firmly believe that He will give us all we need, that He will never forsake us, and that everything which He sends us will be for our welfare._ 8. "We should fear and love God and trust" in Him _"above all things,"_ that is, more than in all other men or things. We may, and we really do, fear and love many things besides God. We fear and love our parents, our teachers, our friends, and we trust in them. God Himself bids us do so. For God's sake we fear and love them. But we must fear and love _God_ more than all other things, more than even our parents, or our dearest friends. _He must be first in our heart and in our life._ If our parents, or friends, or anything else would separate us from God, or prevent us from fearing and loving Him, or from trusting in Him above all things, we must cast them aside. If we fear and love and trust in anything more than in God, we make a creature our god; then we have other gods besides God; then we are worshiping idols (other gods that are no gods), as the heathen do. _"Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve."_ Matt. 4,10.