Quiet Time #18 - Love, the Greatest Commandment
"And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up." Deuteronomy 6:5-7
When God's chosen people were just about to enter, to possess and inherit the Promised Land, God gave them a set of commandments, the First and the Greatest of which is to Love.
It is a no brainer really because God is Love and this is also what He wants His children to do. Jesus Himself asked his followers to do the same.
And it isn't really hard to do. God loved us first. And Jesus loves us enough to come down and personally show us that love.
God's love conquers all. God's love wins every time. God's love breaks the coldest heart, the hardest will and stubbornest spirit.
God's love is amazing. It is awesome.
God's love is patient and kind. God's love covers a multitude of mistakes and miscues.
Love Calls Us Back
God's love beckons to us. It calls us sinners back to Him each time we fall and invites us back to Him every time we fall away.
God's love is always there. It is available to everyone.
And once we truly receive it with all our heart, God's love becomes irresistible.
And God's love will never leave us or forsake us and will carry us over everything we go through.
I can't even imagine how it is to live another day without that love.
Loving others and sharing that love and doing whatever we do for God is just a natural offshoot of anyone truly receiving and treasuring that love... we are able to love others and even ourselves when we have received God's love.
God's love beckons to us. It calls us sinners back to Him each time we fall and invites us back to Him every time we fall away.
God's love is always there. It is available to everyone.
And once we truly receive it with all our heart, God's love becomes irresistible.
And God's love will never leave us or forsake us and will carry us over everything we go through.
I can't even imagine how it is to live another day without that love.
Loving others and sharing that love and doing whatever we do for God is just a natural offshoot of anyone truly receiving and treasuring that love... we are able to love others and even ourselves when we have received God's love.
God's love leaves the 99 other sheep who do not need saving to go out and look for that one sheep who does -- us.
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