Who do you love?
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.-Matthew 12:30
The greatest commandment: Jesus said so. God has given us everything, including His only Son's life. In return, this is what He asks from us: love, defined in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. In a nutshell, it's patience, kindness, gentleness, peace-loving, not selfish, always bearing everything. True love is everything we are not, which is precisely why God instructs us to do it with all everything within us. It takes everything within us to overcome our sinful selves to even come close to the mark.
No matter the truth of God's love for us, showing this kind of love to Him is not easy. God does not come down from Heaven to chat with us. He does not buy us presents or send us cards. In this world of analytical thinking, God's blessings can be claimed as luck, fate, good karma, or the reward for our own hard work. He is not visible to us in our daily lives unless we are seeking Him.
We cannot love someone we do not know. We also can't follow someone if we don't know where they went. Scripture gives us beautiful insight into God's character and Jesus' mission. It tells us the kind of things we would seek to know about a person if we were looking for a relationship. The Bible retells epic love stories of God and His people. It tells of the kind of love story God wishes to have with us. It tells us what Jesus would do. Unfortunately, we can't experience this relationship with a Sunday commitment.
Each day we live without God is a day lived without love, without direction. Hebrews 4:12 says, 'For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.' Scripture has something important to say to us every day. When we fail to give God some of our undivided attention, we lose focus quickly, and we fall off the Lord's path for us. Then we find ourselves in trouble.
It's the goal of our lives to learn who God is. When we learn who He is, we can begin to understand His love for us. Living in relationship with the Lord is this kind of process. Understanding God's love in the face of our sinful nature helps us to learn to show His love to others. When we give up our selfish nature and learn to love like God, we find ourselves in the center of His will.
Don't fail to recognize where the journey begins. It's in the Lord's Holy Word.
The greatest commandment: Jesus said so. God has given us everything, including His only Son's life. In return, this is what He asks from us: love, defined in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. In a nutshell, it's patience, kindness, gentleness, peace-loving, not selfish, always bearing everything. True love is everything we are not, which is precisely why God instructs us to do it with all everything within us. It takes everything within us to overcome our sinful selves to even come close to the mark.
No matter the truth of God's love for us, showing this kind of love to Him is not easy. God does not come down from Heaven to chat with us. He does not buy us presents or send us cards. In this world of analytical thinking, God's blessings can be claimed as luck, fate, good karma, or the reward for our own hard work. He is not visible to us in our daily lives unless we are seeking Him.
We cannot love someone we do not know. We also can't follow someone if we don't know where they went. Scripture gives us beautiful insight into God's character and Jesus' mission. It tells us the kind of things we would seek to know about a person if we were looking for a relationship. The Bible retells epic love stories of God and His people. It tells of the kind of love story God wishes to have with us. It tells us what Jesus would do. Unfortunately, we can't experience this relationship with a Sunday commitment.
Each day we live without God is a day lived without love, without direction. Hebrews 4:12 says, 'For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.' Scripture has something important to say to us every day. When we fail to give God some of our undivided attention, we lose focus quickly, and we fall off the Lord's path for us. Then we find ourselves in trouble.
It's the goal of our lives to learn who God is. When we learn who He is, we can begin to understand His love for us. Living in relationship with the Lord is this kind of process. Understanding God's love in the face of our sinful nature helps us to learn to show His love to others. When we give up our selfish nature and learn to love like God, we find ourselves in the center of His will.
Don't fail to recognize where the journey begins. It's in the Lord's Holy Word.
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