We play the new testament while we sleep on my MP3 player each night. This morning I woke up to the passage in Mark, where Jesus tells the Pharisee’s that the greatest commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” and to “love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:29-31)
This certainly feeds into yesterday’s entry. How do I praise him with all that I am? By loving Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. This, of course, could fill pages and pages of blogs and books on the application of just that verse… and if fact, it does… The Bible IS the original blog detailing what that looks like.
For me, today, it is an active love. It is choosing Him over me. It is choosing others over me. It is dying to self and letting Christ live through me; letting His humility and patience overtake my own fleshsuit and all the baggage it has with it. It is remembering… remembering that MY righteous acts are like filthy rags to Him (Is 64:6). It is remembering that I have indeed sinned, and continue to sin, and I need to be saved (Is 64:5). It is remembering that there is NO WAY I could do this life without Him and that my wisdom is foolishness to him (I Cor 1:24-25).
It’s remembering that He chose me.
Thank you Lord, for choosing me. Help me praise you with all that I am today, by loving you with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength and by loving my neighbors as myself. Help me to have an active love today, engaging in remembering You and all that you have done, are doing, and will do. In Jesus name. Amen.
This was a good reminder for me today. Psalms 103 is really good. He says may I never forget the good things he does for me, and then goes on to name other things. Since there was a period there according to english at least it was a complete thought not necessarily coupled with the other things he then went on to mention. So in other words 3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. 4 He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. 5 He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s! All of that is a seperate thought from remembering all he does for you? So there is more that God does than just verses 3-5. That really made me begin to try and look and see the “small” things of God. The stuff I wouldnt normally praise Him for that goes unnoticed sometimes. Thank you Shoe
This is great shoe, I can always use a good reminding of how good my works or wisdom are. Thank you for the reminder.