With All Your Heart
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)
Today’s Morsel: What does it mean to love God with all your heart, soul, and might? To me, it means with all my being. Every part of my life ought to be used to show that I love God. When we consider His mercy, grace, long-suffering towards us, His forgiveness, and love which He has already shown towards us, our thoughts ought to be focused on Him. We must not allow anything to come between us and God. Nothing ought to be able to steal the love that you have for Him. The same way that His compassion and mercies are new every morning, our love for Him ought to be the same. God has proven He loved us when He went to calvary for our sins, so that we might live and have life. He can’t do more than that. He told the disciples, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” (John 15:13-14) Jesus proved His love by giving His all. Are we better than He is? “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” (1 John 4:18-21) Your love for God must be without dissimulation.
Sing: Oh, Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God, I love the holy, Lamb of God; oh, wash me in Thy precious blood, my Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
Thought For Today: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15)
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