Measuring Love

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart…” (Matt 22:34a).  There are two Old Testament verse jump to mind as I think of ways to measure or gauge how I am doing in the area of loving with “all my heart.”  The first is Proverbs 3: 5-6 which says “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understand, acknowledge him in all you do and He will make your path straight.”  Like loving God, we are to trust wholly in the Lord also.  So how is your trust level?  As our prosperity increase there seems to be a corresponding decrease in our trust in God and acknowledgement of God in our daily lives.  It seems that trust in God fully and loving God wholly should be pushing us into an ever deepening relationship with God.  The second verse is in the next chapter of Proverbs.  Proverbs 4:23 tells us to guard our heart, for out of it comes the wellspring of life.  We need to protect our heart from those things that would interfere with trusting and loving God.  How often are we robbed by the little things?  For me, it is spending time in the morning reading the comics rather than reading my Bible.  Or worse justifying starting work a little early instead of taking by quiet time.  You see I am doing it for God, right?

 

So how is your trust issue with God?  Do you acknowledge him in all you do?  Does this then help you love God a little more?  Are you being drawn into a deeper more intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father?  Are you guarding that relationship?  How about the guarding of the heart so the relationship can continue to grow?

Posted by strscoa on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:29
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