Posted 2/15/2013
DEVOTIONAL SERIES ON LOVING GOD
SCRIPTURE: DEUTERONOMY 6: 5-9
- 5 Love GOD, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you; love him with all you’ve got!
- 6 Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you
- 7 and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night.
- 8 Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder;
- 9 inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.
DEVOTIONAL: “LOVING GOD”
Let us consider the essential of relationship with God. We are commanded that the foundation is to love the Lord our God. The question is, “How”?? Let us listen carefully to the answer and think about it in the next few minutes. The instruction given includes the answer in verse 5. We are commanded to love Him with our whole heart. Notice there no such thing as part time love of God. Neither is there a stop and go angle in loving God. Certainly there is not a halfway effort. Verse urges to love Him with all that is in us and with all the strength we have. This means one hundred percent action employed in committing our love to Him. As a coach I never asked my team for a little effort to be extended on the contest field but to give every last ounce of effort and to go far beyond the comfort zone. That is what God expects of us. We need to step outside the door of convenience and venture forward in active Love of God. This means absolute faith that God is with us and will keep His promises toward us. Let us realize we are on a mission here and our home is faraway on a golden shore; we are here on a mission for our God and King. The first job we need to attend to is to write these commandments on our hearts and then teach them to our children. Let our conversation be about loving God. Dear Jesus help us to increase our Love for You today. Amen.
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