Deuteronomy 6: 5. ‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.’
That G-d alone can command love is surely one of the defining differences between G-d and human beings. For if a man had to command my love it would signal too little confidence in his power of attraction and too much confidence in his power to make me act against my natural inclination not to love him all that much.
Yet when G-d commands our love it does not diminish him in our eyes but precisely reveals him as G-d and us as those in a process of human becoming. To love G-d is the least we can do in so far as G-d has, literally, given us the world. And it is also the most we can do because it is supremely difficult to love a non-entity (in the strict sense of that word) like G-d.
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