# 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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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Mind: A Terrible Thing To Tarnish
# 507 - Today's. du-votional comes from: Mr 8:33 “But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Such strong words from our Lord! And what a great reminder for us of the sway that Satan holds with our flesh and the world. Here we have the three enemies of Christ named in one verse. The devil, (Satan) the world (men) and our flesh (personified in Peter) Satan uses the world and our flesh to draw our minds away from the things of God.
The Old Testament said that the Christ MUST suffer, MUST be rejected, and MUST be killed, and when Peter rebuked Jesus for relating this information, he was in fact rebuking the Word of God. What was the Lord's charge against Peter? It was that his mind was not full of the things of God, but rather the things of the world.
The Holy Spirit reminds us in Rom 12:2, what we all need to do to combat this tendency. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Years ago there was an ad campaign that said, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” We might say today, “A mind is a terrible thing to tarnish.” We allow it to become tarnished when we neglect God's Word. Let us rather commit to daily renewal.
And our minds are renewed, our lives are transformed as we prayerfully spend time in God's Word, believing it, and trusting it, and submitting to it in faith.
Father, it's so easy to skip our daily time in Your Word, help us to overcome this laziness, help us to eagerly look forward to the renewing of our mind as we spend time in Your Word.
Such strong words from our Lord! And what a great reminder for us of the sway that Satan holds with our flesh and the world. Here we have the three enemies of Christ named in one verse. The devil, (Satan) the world (men) and our flesh (personified in Peter) Satan uses the world and our flesh to draw our minds away from the things of God.
The Old Testament said that the Christ MUST suffer, MUST be rejected, and MUST be killed, and when Peter rebuked Jesus for relating this information, he was in fact rebuking the Word of God. What was the Lord's charge against Peter? It was that his mind was not full of the things of God, but rather the things of the world.
The Holy Spirit reminds us in Rom 12:2, what we all need to do to combat this tendency. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Years ago there was an ad campaign that said, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” We might say today, “A mind is a terrible thing to tarnish.” We allow it to become tarnished when we neglect God's Word. Let us rather commit to daily renewal.
And our minds are renewed, our lives are transformed as we prayerfully spend time in God's Word, believing it, and trusting it, and submitting to it in faith.
Father, it's so easy to skip our daily time in Your Word, help us to overcome this laziness, help us to eagerly look forward to the renewing of our mind as we spend time in Your Word.
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