March 06 - Command

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Deuteronomy 10:12-14

12 And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask for you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his way, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the Lord's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good? 14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Verse 12 seems all too similar to a New Testament verse found in Mark (12:30). We are instructed that the most important commandment is to Love the Lord our God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. When we fear God, we love him. When we walk in His ways, we love him. When we serve the Lord, we love him. God deserves so much more than we give him. We obsess over little things, we do not invest the time that He desires and the time that we NEED, we overlook countless blessings, but yet we still say we love Him.

When I mess up and pray for forgiveness, I often times find myself saying, "I love you God". If this were entirely true, why would I continue to sin and hurt Him? If we walk in His ways, then we prove our love to Him through our actions and our heart. Our human/sinful nature prevents us from being perfect however. This is no excuse to continue to freely sin though. If we get drunk every weekend, overeat at dinner time, curse at our co-workers, and abuse our family, we are hurting God at the same time. How can He love us when we continually hurt Him? The answer is, unconditional love.

God 's love for us is steady, constant, and never changing. Our love for God, if observed on a line graph, would be all over the place. We would peak and then drop, over and over and over again. If we truly love God, we should desire and attempt to be more like Him. This week, this is going to be my goal...to love God with the same love He has blessed me with everyday...


"Failure is success if we learn from it."
- Malcolm S. Forbes