What Does It Mean to Love God? (Genesis Has the Answer)

What if the very first command God ever gave holds the key to your entire relationship with Him? Most people miss it — it's tucked into just one verse in Genesis. Long before "love God and love your neighbor," God gave Adam a simpler, older command: tend and keep. Pastor Wayne unpacks the original Hebrew — eved (to serve, worship, minister) and shamar (to guard, protect, keep) — to show that our first calling was never really about gardening. It was about presence: staying close to God and guarding that closeness from anything that would pull us away. From Eden to Revelation 22, this one word pair traces the whole story of Scripture. If this teaching on tending and guarding your walk with God stirred something in you, your gift helps us bring that same call to presence to someone else who needs to hear it. Partner with Walk Through The Word Ministries: https://give.walkthroughtheword.org