SCRIPTURE: “So he answered and said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke 10:27)
QUOTE: “God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” – Rick Warren
NOTE:
One of the many lifetime responsibilities of any leader at any level is decision making; about oneself, the family, ministry, career, business etc. No doubt about it; the quality of a leader’s decisions is directly proportional to the quality of his or her performance and vice versa. One of such critical decisions is the decision to love God wholeheartedly. That enables and empowers the leader to take off from God’s premise since God is love. It guarantees that God is in the journey. It guarantees that His abiding presence is not a guess work or a mere assumption. It guarantees that no limitation or barrier can stop you since God is leading the trip.
Loving the Lord wholeheartedly is a call for multi-level and multi-dimensional intimacy with our heavenly Father. We are to love Him with the heart (spiritual intimacy), with the soul (emotional intimacy), with the strength (physical intimacy), with the mind (intellectual intimacy) and by loving our neighbors as ourselves (social intimacy). Hence, in this New Year, God does not want a part or some parts of you; He wants all and the whole of you. That is the sure pathway to preservation, power and prosperity.
ILLUSTRATION:
Though men of the Old Testament days, Moses and David understood perfectly what it means to love the Lord dearly and to carry His abiding presence in the journey of life and destiny. These men were ready to let go of everything but God’s presence. The exploits of these kingdom Generals are enough proofs that no man loves God at a loss.
REFLECTION:
The decision to love God wholeheartedly comes at a cost. How ready are you to pay the price?
TWO YEAR BIBLE READING: Leviticus 5.14 – 6.7, Psalm 60