Love the Lord With All of Our heart Soul and Might
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Love the Lord With All of Our heart Soul and Might
   
An old chorus comes to mind.  

He is my everything, He is my all
He is my everything, both great and small
He gave His life for me, made everything new
He is my everything, O how about you?
 

The story of Israel in the wilderness is a close parallel to our story of salvation.  We were delivered from the bondage of sin , yet we have wandered in the desert of life as God reveals Himself to us as an all sufficient God.  

God warned Israel to keep their souls diligently, lest thy forget what they had seen and experienced (De 4:9). A good warning for us as  we tend to forget sometimes, don't we?

After 400 years of bondage,   Israel was delivered from the hand of Pharaoh by the mighty hand of God.  After they walked through the Red Sea as on dry land, they danced and  sang the Song of Moses on the far shore (Ex. 15:1,21). Three days later, they murmured against God (Ex. 15:24).  We're not too much different than they, are we?  Sometimes we shout on Sunday and are depressed on Wednesday.  When we do that, we need to check whether we have given the Lord all of our heart and soul and are we serving Him with all of our might. might.  

A quick bible search will show us that the words heart, soul and might are used throughout the book of Deuteronomy .  

We are told that:  

We will find the Lord when we seek Him with all of our heart and soul  (De. 4:29)  

The Lord expressed that it would  go well with Israel and their children, if only they had a heart to fear Him and keep His commandments (De. 5:29).  

God reminded Israel that He was One Lord.  This is  in contrast to the endless lists of gods for idolatrous Egypt. Our one Lord is our Creator, our Savior and our Sustainer throughout our life's journey. He supplies all of our needs just as He cares for the birds of the air  and the flowers of the field (Mt. 6:26, 28). Our only requirement is that we love and serve Him and Him only with all of our heart, soul and might.  He promised us that if we seek His kingdom first, all of these things will be given to us (Mt. 6:33).  

Deuteronomy 6:4 ¶  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 . And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might
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The Lord commanded Israel to look back on their hardships in the wilderness and to realize that this was a time of proving what was really in their hearts and whether they would keep his commandments. This still applies to us today. Acts 14:22 reminds us that we would enter the kingdom of God by great tribulation. The sun doesn't shine everyday , but the SON still shines in all of His glory. Our trials are for our perfection.  

Deuteronomy 8:2  And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.  

Deuteronomy 10:12  And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,  

Deuteronomy 11:13  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, We find other references to heart, soul and might in Deuteronomy, 13:3, 15:10, 26:16, 28;47 and 30:2, 6, 10.  

Israel proved that they were unable to love and serve the Lord, because their heart wasn't in tune with God. God promised them and their seed a new heart that would be in tune with Him.  

Deuteronomy  30:6  And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.  

Ezekiel 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.  

2 Corinthians 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
 

Aren't you thankful for your new heart and soul, furnished by the regeneration of God's Holy Spirit (Joel 2:28-29)? We now see hardships differently. We are content with His provisions. We no longer worship Him with just our lips (Mt. 15:8) but with our total heart, soul and might.  

And we look expectantly to see our Lord and Savior in the New Canaan that He has prepared for us.   

Song: My God, My King and My Redeemer

Somebody Has Said
 
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. -  Richard Rolle

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