'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment. (Matt. 22:37-38)
Perhaps you're like me, and you've read that command so many times it's lost its impact. Go back now and reread it and think deeply with me for a moment. What is our Lord commanding here? Nothing less than our undivided love and worship. Just as soon as I pause to reflect on that principal command, I begin to get uncomfortable. I have to ask myself,
- Do I love Him with everything that I am, or are there other loves in my heart that clamor for my attention?
- Do I worship additional gods, or is He always, and in every case, the supreme Ruler who receives my undivided passion and devotion?
...Idolatry has to do with love -- my love for Him, my love for others, my love of the world. When I look at idolatry in these ways, I understand that I'm not so different from those people I observed in temples so far away."
--Elyse Fitzpatrick, in Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone
1 comment:
Very true. We throw this around, but very few people love the Lord with everything.
Maria Pauline
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