Reflection
Apart from the many challenges being newly diagnosed (3rd week), is to love the Lord with all that is in me. This morning I read in Mark 12:30-31, to love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
I reflected on how easy it is to love the things (or people) that bring pleasure, comfort and some measure of happiness, though fleeting. However, not to love God first, is not to fully experience a pure and holy love for others as He intended. So often my investment in a self focused love made for a frustrated and diminished return. Now, my body is a witness to that terrible and costly investment.
So why would it require all my strength, undivided attention (mind) and soul to love a God who makes it so easy to adore Him, given how gracious, kind, forgiving and only seeks my utmost good?
Whatever the reasons may be, I must be determine to say as the Shulamite woman in Song of Solomon, "...when I found the one I love, I held him and would not let him go." (3:4). For when I hold on to him, there is no other choice but to let go of things I held so dearly. In turn, He captures me.
I reflected on how easy it is to love the things (or people) that bring pleasure, comfort and some measure of happiness, though fleeting. However, not to love God first, is not to fully experience a pure and holy love for others as He intended. So often my investment in a self focused love made for a frustrated and diminished return. Now, my body is a witness to that terrible and costly investment.
So why would it require all my strength, undivided attention (mind) and soul to love a God who makes it so easy to adore Him, given how gracious, kind, forgiving and only seeks my utmost good?
Whatever the reasons may be, I must be determine to say as the Shulamite woman in Song of Solomon, "...when I found the one I love, I held him and would not let him go." (3:4). For when I hold on to him, there is no other choice but to let go of things I held so dearly. In turn, He captures me.
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