Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NIV
So many times Satan seduces us into a flat, 2 dimensional Christianity, going to church and doing good deeds. But God calls us to a three dimensional faith. He wants us to love Him with all of our being in all of our actions and with all of our might.
We are born dead in sin and at enmity with God. As members of a fallen race, we have all sinned, and all have fallen far short of the goodness and perfection of God. God alone is perfect, so He alone is able to fulfil the command to love with every fibre of His being, for God alone is love.
It is humanly impossible to love the Lord in the way He commands and to love others with that same Godly love. No one can love God every moment of the day and in every circumstance of life. As members of humanity, we are bound by our fallen nature, to fall short of His perfection.
Irrespective of the sin we commit on a daily basis, we break this particular command continuously for it is not humanly possible to love God with all our heart. Indeed, it is impossible to love as Christ loved us, which was the new commandment He gave to each member His Church.
Once we understand our inability to obey God's commands and admit our spiritual bankruptcy, we are in a position to admit that we are sinners in need of a Saviour. Indeed, this was the original point of God's holy law. It was given as a schoolmaster to teach us about Christ. It was a signpost bring us to the foot of the Cross.
Throughout His earthly life, Jesus was seeking to expose this deadly, sinful flaw in mankind's character. Christ was seeking to show the immensity of our sin against the goodness of God so that He could provide the message of salvation by grace through faith.
It is by grace through faith in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we, who are members of His Body, have been cleansed from our sin, made children of God, and clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
Only in the power of Christ can we love the Lord our God with all our heart. Only in Him can we love God with all our soul, and with all our might, and with all our mind, and with all our strength. For it is only as the very love of Christ flows into the heart that has been washed and cleansed by His sacrificial blood, that we can love with a Christ-like love.
To love the Lord our God with a Christ-like love, is only possible as His love is continuously poured into our heart. The more we abide in Him, the deeper our love for Him will become. Indeed, as we witness the faithfulness of God in the difficult struggles of life and experience His tender mercies in the painful circumstances through which we must inevitably pass, our love for God can only deepen and strengthen as we grow in grace and in a knowledge of Him.
How do we get God’s Word in our hearts? He places His commands into our hearts as a result of our surrendering to Him. What God most wants from us is our heart and love. We usually think that God demands many other things from us, like our time, money, or submission. But what God really desires is our hearts.
When we do love the Lord with all of our heart, soul, and might then everything else falls into place. May our heart-cry become, that we may love the Lord our God, with every fibre of our beings, as we die to our own self-interest and live for Him alone!!!
Father thank You for this day and what amazing grace You have shown to us and the entire human race, that Your love for us is so great that You would send Your only begotten Son to die for our sin. Lord let abundant blessings be my friend and family’s portion today. Lord no matter what it takes, we pray that we may learn to love You with all our hearts, and souls, and minds, and strengths and with every fibre of our beings, knowing that it is only as we m die to self and live for You, that Your love may be manifested in us today. Be a blessing.
Father, we love You. Amen !
Comments