Our emotions do not form the foundation of our relationship with God but they do accentuate and enhance our experience of God. It is impossible to love God and remain cold and indifferent. If we say we know God yet are unmoved by him, we don’t know him. To love God with our soul means to love him with our emotions, affections, and desires. In short, we love God when we read, study, and meditate upon the Bible. To love God with our mind means primarily that we engage with the truth God has revealed about himself in scripture. These three are the mind, the soul, and our might. There are three aspects of our person that we are to love God with in Deuteronomy 6.4-5. What does it mean to love God? To love God means to love him with our entire person or being. A blessed Christian life is one that seeks to love God before all else.įor the rest of this devotion, I want to focus on the first and greatest commandment.
We love God first in priority then our neighbor.
As Christians we do not love people first and then God. Also, Jesus not only tells us the two most important commandments but he gives us the divine priority of Christian love. These two texts Jesus sees as the greatest commandments because the whole law of God can be summed up in these two commands. The second commandment, love people, comes from Leviticus 19.18. The first and greatest commandment, love God, comes from Deuteronomy 6.4-5. The two commandments Jesus states as the first and second most important come from the Old Testament. I could say much on this topic yet I will keep it brief and to the point. The greatest commandment is found in today’s passage and it comes from the lips of the greatest teacher who ever walked the earth, our Lord Jesus Christ. The song is very catchy, yet while this command is simple at the same time it takes an entire lifetime to grow and mature in living out the greatest command God has given to his people. The chorus goes “Gotta keep it real simple, keep it real simple bring everything back down to ground zero, cause it all comes down to this love God and love people”. The rest falls into place in his perfect timing and in his perfect way.There’s a song on K-Love (Christian radio station) called “Love God and Love People” by Danny Gokey. We just gotta keep it simple – love God, love people. But when we’re patient and kind, and love God with all our heart, soul, and strength, and love our neighbors as we love ourselves, that’s when our lives get reordered to the way God designed them to be. We wonder if things will ever change, and how, and when. Things don’t feel right, so we overthink. That’s it! The problem is, we step in and complicate things. It’s the simple things in life.Īnd that’s what this new song from Danny Gokey is all about. People are getting back to the basics and realizing what matters most. Sales skyrocketing for board games, puzzles, and Bibles. Stay at home." And look what’s happening! Families having dinner together again and going on walks. If you asked someone how they were doing, a common reply was “busy.” And then, corona virus hit. Crazy schedules, jam packed calendars, rushing from one thing to the other with hardly any time to breathe. We’ve been hearing how overwhelmed and stressed people feel for quite some time now. Knowing life will be found when love can be loud We’re living in a world that keeps breakin’īut if we want to find a way to change it Has me spinning my head, catching my breathīring everything right back to ground zero Getting caught in that rush of doing so much
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