The Greatest Commandment!
Reading: Deuteronomy 5, 6
My Verse: "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (6:5).
Oh, LORD God, how I meditate on this, Your greatest commandment! I wonder at it and try to visualize how this is to look in my life, this life You have given me, this walk You lead me on.
I know that before I can love You I need to know Who You are! This is vital. Tozer wrote a wonderful little book called "The Knowledge of the Holy." In it he teaches how if we do not think rightly about Who You are then we simply cannot follow You because we do not know who it is we are following. He states, "The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us." How sad is that? He goes on to say. "With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence."
Yes, without knowing who You truly are, I cannot even begin to love You as You command.
I am to love You with all my "heart." Apparently in the early Hebrew the term "heart" meant mind. So I am to love You with all my mind. All my mind. That is pretty amazing. We have so many distractions. Our mind goes off on so many things. I am finding that I need to be in Your Word daily or I feel myself start to stray - my mind wanders and dwells on things that it should not. Instead of being thankful for Who You are I begin to worry and be anxious about many things. Oh, LORD, it needs discipline and You promise to provide me this. "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline" (2 Tim. 1:7).
I am to love you with all my "soul." I looked up "soul" in the Merriam Dictionary and one of the definitions is "the moral and emotional nature of human beings." This is what separates us from animals. This is what enables us to commune with You! Another part of the definition was, I thought, so interesting. It said "an active or essential part." The idea that the soul is our essential part is immense. One often hears the saying, "To gain the whole world but to lose one's soul." Such a tragedy. So many in our world neglect the needs of their souls - they struggle to gain the world instead and pay the dreadful consequences of that pursuit. Oh, LORD God, thank You for opening my eyes to You. Help me to stay focused on You and worship You with all my soul!
I am to love You with all my "might." This is the hands on part of Your great command. We are not just to give you lip service on Sunday. No, You ask us to give our all. To worship You with all my might means I need to put all my energy and strength into this. James teaches much on this. He says, "Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves". (James 1:22). He goes on to say, "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead" (James 2:17). So, yes, You want us to give You our all, only then can we truly enjoy the blessings You want to give to us.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-okKxiOGek
Thank You Lord God for this Your greatest commandment! You repeated it throughout Your Word.
"This is the greatest and first commandment" (Matthew 22:38)"
"And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark12:30).
"And He answered, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" (Luke 10:27).
Yes, You are very clear on this! Thank You for clarity, LORD God. Keep me in You today.
Didat Deus - God Enriches!
Reading: Deuteronomy 5, 6
My Verse: "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (6:5).
Oh, LORD God, how I meditate on this, Your greatest commandment! I wonder at it and try to visualize how this is to look in my life, this life You have given me, this walk You lead me on.
I know that before I can love You I need to know Who You are! This is vital. Tozer wrote a wonderful little book called "The Knowledge of the Holy." In it he teaches how if we do not think rightly about Who You are then we simply cannot follow You because we do not know who it is we are following. He states, "The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us." How sad is that? He goes on to say. "With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence."
Yes, without knowing who You truly are, I cannot even begin to love You as You command.
I am to love You with all my "heart." Apparently in the early Hebrew the term "heart" meant mind. So I am to love You with all my mind. All my mind. That is pretty amazing. We have so many distractions. Our mind goes off on so many things. I am finding that I need to be in Your Word daily or I feel myself start to stray - my mind wanders and dwells on things that it should not. Instead of being thankful for Who You are I begin to worry and be anxious about many things. Oh, LORD, it needs discipline and You promise to provide me this. "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline" (2 Tim. 1:7).
I am to love you with all my "soul." I looked up "soul" in the Merriam Dictionary and one of the definitions is "the moral and emotional nature of human beings." This is what separates us from animals. This is what enables us to commune with You! Another part of the definition was, I thought, so interesting. It said "an active or essential part." The idea that the soul is our essential part is immense. One often hears the saying, "To gain the whole world but to lose one's soul." Such a tragedy. So many in our world neglect the needs of their souls - they struggle to gain the world instead and pay the dreadful consequences of that pursuit. Oh, LORD God, thank You for opening my eyes to You. Help me to stay focused on You and worship You with all my soul!
I am to love You with all my "might." This is the hands on part of Your great command. We are not just to give you lip service on Sunday. No, You ask us to give our all. To worship You with all my might means I need to put all my energy and strength into this. James teaches much on this. He says, "Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves". (James 1:22). He goes on to say, "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead" (James 2:17). So, yes, You want us to give You our all, only then can we truly enjoy the blessings You want to give to us.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-okKxiOGek
Thank You Lord God for this Your greatest commandment! You repeated it throughout Your Word.
"This is the greatest and first commandment" (Matthew 22:38)"
"And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark12:30).
"And He answered, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" (Luke 10:27).
Yes, You are very clear on this! Thank You for clarity, LORD God. Keep me in You today.
Didat Deus - God Enriches!
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