Memorisation Monday
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31
The commands of our world are do whatever makes you happy. There is only one command. The singer Adele famously lived by these commands. She chose her own happiness over her son’s by divorcing a husband who had seemingly don’t little wrong.
But the commands of this world are unnatural and therefore harm us. They are like trying to eat through our nose instead of our mouth.
God’s commands, on the other hand, are truly loving and natural. To love God is to do what we were made for and find satisfaction from its natural source. To love others is the natural outflow of the fulfilment and satisfaction that we receive from knowing God.
Tips:
Pray:
Mark 12:30-31
The commands of our world are do whatever makes you happy. There is only one command. The singer Adele famously lived by these commands. She chose her own happiness over her son’s by divorcing a husband who had seemingly don’t little wrong.
But the commands of this world are unnatural and therefore harm us. They are like trying to eat through our nose instead of our mouth.
God’s commands, on the other hand, are truly loving and natural. To love God is to do what we were made for and find satisfaction from its natural source. To love others is the natural outflow of the fulfilment and satisfaction that we receive from knowing God.
Tips:
- Say the passage out loud 10 times in a row.
- Say it once before you go to sleep.
- Say it once more when you wake up.
Pray:
- Praise the Father that He is good and knows what is good for us.
- Give thanks for Christ who shows us how to love the Father and others.
- Ask God for His Holy Spirit to help you and others love Him and love others.
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