God's Gospel Truths
Matthew 22:34-40
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
• In Christ, I am enabled to trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding; I can submit to Him in all of my ways and know that He will make my paths straight.
Pondering Point
The gospel reading for today (Matthew 22:34-40) is a great answer to how we can glorify (or honor) God by the way we go about our life day in and day out.
That daily lifestyle is an act of love for God at the heart and soul and mind levels. And, as you can read in Thursday’s devotion, your daily life is an act of love at the relational level of neighborly love also.
How could a person orient their lifestyle around this command of God?
Prayer
Father God, I pray for the kind of obedience that comes by faith as described by the Apostle Paul in Romans 1:5 (Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake).
I want to have a Spirit-led life of faith that motivates me to love You with obedience in all my heart and soul and mind and to be motivated to obediently love my neighbor as You desire of me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
• I can apply my heart to loving God by________________
• I can apply my soul to loving God by ________________
• I can apply my mind to loving God by ________________