Friday, October 2, 2015

Love? or Light Switch?

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind"
-Matthew 22:37

So this verse popped up on my phone today, and it made me think, "As Christians do we fully fulfill this commandment?"
But really, do we? I think as Christians we read this verse and just put our Bible down, walk out of church, or leave the small group think that it was an nice verse and that is it. In James it says that we should not become like a man who looks at a mirror, ans when walking away forgets what he looks like (James 1:24). But we are so guilty of this, especially when it comes to "Loving the Lord with all our heart and mind".
You see what that means is complete surrender to Him. How many of us are guilty of saying we will follow Jesus to the cross, but yet not giving all to Him? We begin to hold onto things, the famous word "But" begins to become a beginner for a lot of our vocabulary with God. Loving Him means giving into Him, not holding onto anything but His hand. God can't lead us through life if we are dragging everything behind us.
As a follower, believer, and lover of YHWH God I suffer from this challenge to. For years I have dragged stuff behind me, with one hand "Lifted in surrender" like the praise song says, but one hand behind me dragging all the junk of my life along. God doesn't want my junk, He wants me.
This is called conviction, fortunately it is a regular thing. For me it comes each day, especially with being a guy in a secular world. I am a guy who has dragged a lot of stuff behind me, a lot of stuff that is not loving of or for Him. Whether it be actions, looks, wants, thoughts, words, you see loving God isn't just in a church, with reading my Bible, or spending time in prayer, loving Him is a full action and commitment of my life! Every breath we take should be in love of and for Him!
So I ask this, do you fully "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind" with every step, breath, thought, word, click, look, action. Or is it temporary, turned off and on... God isn't a light switch, or a TV flicker... He is the sun of the day and the moon of the night, always shinning, always there.
Who is your lover?

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