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About-Him.Com Devotional 07-20-2002
Deuteronomy 7:4 ¶
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. Matthew 10:37 He
that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that
loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me. I John 2;15 Love not
the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him.
In both the old and the new
testaments the Lord demands it all. Second place won't do. He
demands to be first in our affection. However, this presents a
conflict. My natural self rebels at such demands. I want to love, when and if, I
want to love, on my terms.
How to resolve the conflict? When
I dig into His word, I realize that He loved me first with an everlasting
unchanging, undying love (I John 4:10,19). He set His love upon me, even when I
was unlovable and rebellious (Deuteronomy
7:7-8).
I am now able to love Him fully
and obey Him, not by anything that I have done, but because He changed my
heart.
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.
He went to the cross for me that I might live.
He shed His blood that I might be free. He died that I might be in fellowship
with Him eternally. How can I not love Him in
return? 1
John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
1
John 4:19 We love him, because
he first loved
us.
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Humor
While waiting for my
first appointment in the reception room of a new dentist, I noticed his
certificate, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered that a tall,
handsome boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 30 years
ago. Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought.
This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to have
been my classmate. After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local high school. "Yes," he replied. "When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered, "In 1964." "Why, you were in my class!" I exclaimed. He looked at me closely and then asked, "What did you teach?" Keep Looking Up! Don & Marie Spooner About Him! Ministries Your thoughts and Inquiries Contact@about-him.com Subscribe to this devotional? Subscribe@about-him.com
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