# 642 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 12:30 'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
Because the Lord your God is one, that is, completely, perfectly together, we then must completely and perfectly love Him with every aspect of our God-created being! This is what He has created each of us to do. Unfortunately, due to sin, we will not be able to do this perfectly until we are in heaven.
This love is a purposeful love, a full intelligent understanding of why we love, who we love, and how we love. Untainted by sin, we will be able to love the One God, “with all.” With all that we have in our God-created vessels. All out heart, soul, mind, and strength.
The heart is the very center of our being. The soul is our very life. The mind is our power to think. Our strength is the effort to put forth all that we have in our heart, soul, and mind to love Him.
Honestly, we shouldn't have to go any further than this command to see what imperfect beings we are in the here and now. Who can possibly love God in such a way? Only Jesus. Yet as we surrender our lives to Jesus, the Holy Spirit, dwells in us and it is His sincere desire and mission to help us love God in such a way.
The more we allow Him to do this work in us, the closer we come to being who he created us to be
Father, I see anew today, how far short I fall from what You created me to be. By Your grace grant me more of a desire to love you this way, through the power of Your Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.
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