8/26/2013

Love God with All Your.... (Mark 12:30-31)

Do you love God? Do you love Him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength (Mk 12:30-31)? What does this even mean?

This leaves no room whatsoever for loving God partially, or with loving God with only a part of ourselves. Jesus, quoting Dt 6:5 and Lev 19:18, emphatically emphasizes that loving God must be without any reservation, and that it must include loving those who are not a part of our family or inner circle. My wife will certainly be grieved and saddened greatly if I ever said or expressed to her that, "I love you sometimes, and I am faithful to you most of the time."

What does loving God with our entire being and our entire self mean?

  • Love the Lord with all your heart is a matter of character.
  • Love the Lord with all your soul is a matter of conviction.
  • Love the Lord with all your mind is a matter of comprehension
  • Love the Lord with all your strength is a matter of competence
  • Love your neighbor is a matter of compassion.
(This is from a lecture by Oscar Muriu given at the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit. Muriu's title is "Viral Leadership: Multiplying your impact exponentially." He is the Senior Pastor of Nairobi Chapel in Kenya.)
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1 comment:

  1. mjpeaceSeptember 4, 2013 at 11:06 PM

    For me, the hardest is to love God with all my heart. I love God cognitively, I say it and I think it. But so often it stays in head. And I am not good at faking my emotions. I'm lacking in orthopathy.
    By the way, I want to watch more from the Global Leadership Summit. It looked amazing, from the promo clip I saw.

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