Jesus stated that “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,” is the “great and foremost commandment “ This is the boulder of your rocks. How do we set this boulder in place? Here are some questions to see if we do indeed love God as such.
First: Do you love the Lord your God? To love God is to love Him because He is God, not because of anything of me. It is to love Him wholly by breaking any contest between my self-centeredness and God-centeredness and declaring it is God alone.
Is God the passion of your heart? That which you love with your heart you sacrifice for. The heart is where we make decisions. Do your decisions about your life, family, and job reflect you are moved by God and toward God?
Is God the passion of your soul? The soul is that point where we contact the inner person with the outer person. It is where love and emotion meet and enthusiasm rises. Is God so valuable to you that you are constantly seeking to increase His value in your life? What about sin? Is your love for Jesus exceeding your love for sin? Are you willing to reach a point in your life that you have no desire to sin again? Do you make sin trivial and dabble with it as if it is of little significance to God?
Is God the passion of your mind? Here is where our intellect, our ability to reason, reflect and desire rightly occurs. We are limited in our minds and must realize that because of limited knowledge, we are gullible and must seek for the Word of God to supervise, control, and instruct us. True love for God calls for submitting ourselves to the revelation of Scripture for God has spoken and the Scripture represents exactly what He meant. Are you recognizing that the Word of God diagnoses our foolishness, motives and decisions? Do you love God so much that you want to hear more and more from Him? Do you want to see yourself correctly by allowing God to bring correction to you?
Set your boulder in place – then place your rocks upon it – and then let the gravel flow. How are your rocks going?
By the way…we have begun plans for May 11 and the next Faith Family Forum. Look for information beginning next week and put it on your calendar. We have a great night planned!
First: Do you love the Lord your God? To love God is to love Him because He is God, not because of anything of me. It is to love Him wholly by breaking any contest between my self-centeredness and God-centeredness and declaring it is God alone.
Is God the passion of your heart? That which you love with your heart you sacrifice for. The heart is where we make decisions. Do your decisions about your life, family, and job reflect you are moved by God and toward God?
Is God the passion of your soul? The soul is that point where we contact the inner person with the outer person. It is where love and emotion meet and enthusiasm rises. Is God so valuable to you that you are constantly seeking to increase His value in your life? What about sin? Is your love for Jesus exceeding your love for sin? Are you willing to reach a point in your life that you have no desire to sin again? Do you make sin trivial and dabble with it as if it is of little significance to God?
Is God the passion of your mind? Here is where our intellect, our ability to reason, reflect and desire rightly occurs. We are limited in our minds and must realize that because of limited knowledge, we are gullible and must seek for the Word of God to supervise, control, and instruct us. True love for God calls for submitting ourselves to the revelation of Scripture for God has spoken and the Scripture represents exactly what He meant. Are you recognizing that the Word of God diagnoses our foolishness, motives and decisions? Do you love God so much that you want to hear more and more from Him? Do you want to see yourself correctly by allowing God to bring correction to you?
Set your boulder in place – then place your rocks upon it – and then let the gravel flow. How are your rocks going?
By the way…we have begun plans for May 11 and the next Faith Family Forum. Look for information beginning next week and put it on your calendar. We have a great night planned!
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