So what is this song all about? It is about "the Greatest of God's Commandment", which is:

"You shall love the Lord your God with

all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

-Jesus said in Matthew 22:37

When Jesus says that we should all love God with all of our heart, soul and mind, what does that mean?

An easy way to answer this is to say that Jesus is clearly meaning that we love God with everything that we are.

Both the heart and soul especially have to do with the very center of our lives as human beings - they are where our life springs from, and therefore there should not be an area of our lives that isn’t touched by this command.

In short that means that we are to commit everything to God, and bring everything under His control, giving ourselves to Him entirely for the rest of our lives.

What aspects of life are affected by the heart, soul and mind? The essences of these three words embody the very epicenter of what we are as humans. So there are a number of areas covered by these three words - they imply that we should honor God in the following seven areas of our lives:

1. our Desires - conforming our desires and wishes to those which will please and honor God

2. our Affections - that we love those things that God loves, and we care for each other in the light of that love

3. our Purposes - that we pursue those things that God would have us pursue, not what we want to pursue

4. our Will - we surrender our lives to His will, we choose to do that which is good, and we are always good to others

5. our Feelings - that we consciously subject our feelings not to our own understanding but to the truth of God’s Word

6. our Character - that we pursue holiness, godliness, and purity, that we live righteous and honest lives

7. and lastly our Thoughts - that we meditate on the truth of God’s Word daily, and live everyday in the light of that frame of mind. In our own personal thoughts we surrender our pride, genuinely repent our wrongs, honestly forgive everyone of their wrongs, and that we love our fellows as we love ourselves.

Plus we surrender all our services and energy to the Kingdom of God. With unfailing faith, with obedience before sacrifice, and absolute surrender of self, we are on our way to fulfilling this greatest of God commandments.

References from 9/20/17: https://www.lookingforgod.com/questions-and-answers/category/81/question/1063/