Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I give to you today are to be in your heart.
Has this verse become your new favorite? There is a lot in it, isn't there? And the imperative style that it is written in makes it feel so solid, so foundational...and it is.
It is one of those verse that we need to fall back on time and time again.
The Lord our God, the Lord is One. --- God is One. We worship one God, bound in trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit --- three in One. We worship the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is God, and He alone. His story is woven throughout the Bible from start to finish, and we claim no other god as our God.
Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength - God wants relationship with us, in every aspect of our being --- our emotional love, our spiritual commitment and our physical actions. We love Him for what He has done for us. We surrender our lives, both temporal and eternal to Him. We present our bodies as a living sacrifice to do His will on this earth.
His words are to be in our hearts - back again to our goal with this exercise...hiding His words in our hearts. They are to be our standard for every choice we make in life. Weighing His words against our intuitions shows us when we are heading in the right direction, and keeps us from plummeting into traps of deception.
God's Word is amazing....so much in every verse. Volumes in a sentence or two. He is very efficient with His use of words, isn't He?
Pack this treasure away --- we'll add to it in the coming week!
Added note tonight: Please, please pray for all the people whose earthly lives have been devastated by the tornadoes, especially in Joplin where they have such widespread destruction and so many lives have been lost. Prayers for Godly people to be there to help those who are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together, that they can see God's love through the people that are coming along beside them. So much to be done and it has to seem so discouraging. Prayers for supernatural faith of believers so that they may be tremendous witnesses to those who don't have the hope of Christ living in their hearts. Prayers for strength and health for all, and for better weather, so that the initial work can be accomplished as quickly as possible, and that the rescue efforts are not hindered in any way.
Has this verse become your new favorite? There is a lot in it, isn't there? And the imperative style that it is written in makes it feel so solid, so foundational...and it is.
It is one of those verse that we need to fall back on time and time again.
The Lord our God, the Lord is One. --- God is One. We worship one God, bound in trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit --- three in One. We worship the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is God, and He alone. His story is woven throughout the Bible from start to finish, and we claim no other god as our God.
Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength - God wants relationship with us, in every aspect of our being --- our emotional love, our spiritual commitment and our physical actions. We love Him for what He has done for us. We surrender our lives, both temporal and eternal to Him. We present our bodies as a living sacrifice to do His will on this earth.
His words are to be in our hearts - back again to our goal with this exercise...hiding His words in our hearts. They are to be our standard for every choice we make in life. Weighing His words against our intuitions shows us when we are heading in the right direction, and keeps us from plummeting into traps of deception.
God's Word is amazing....so much in every verse. Volumes in a sentence or two. He is very efficient with His use of words, isn't He?
Pack this treasure away --- we'll add to it in the coming week!
Added note tonight: Please, please pray for all the people whose earthly lives have been devastated by the tornadoes, especially in Joplin where they have such widespread destruction and so many lives have been lost. Prayers for Godly people to be there to help those who are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together, that they can see God's love through the people that are coming along beside them. So much to be done and it has to seem so discouraging. Prayers for supernatural faith of believers so that they may be tremendous witnesses to those who don't have the hope of Christ living in their hearts. Prayers for strength and health for all, and for better weather, so that the initial work can be accomplished as quickly as possible, and that the rescue efforts are not hindered in any way.
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