Mark 12:30-31
You are 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: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like it, that is: You are to love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
The greatest commandments; and what do we do with them?
Most days forget them.
Can you say that day in and day out you give the Lord your whole heart soul and mind and you give all your strength to doing the will of the Father?
Or do you spend your days more concerned with your own personal comfort and desires?
Placing more time and energy trying to get further in this world and have more than the next guy.
Do you love the Lord more than self?
Do you give more energy to a brother’s need then your own?
Do you truly Love the Lord, or do you live your life more as a hypocrite (Are you a person who pretends to have virtues, morals or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that you do not actually possess, a person whose actions contradict your stated beliefs. A person who puts on some desirable or publicly approved attitude, but your private life, opinions, or statements contradict those statements.)
Most American Christians get dressed up and go to church on Sunday and the rest of the week don’t think about Sunday or what was heard at all. We live as if we are in charge of our lives and destiny, as if we don’t do it - it won’t get don.
Who do we really serve?
Do we love Christ Jesus or ourselves?
A hypocrite: someone who says they love Christ Jesus but lives to serve self, a person who on Sunday uses no foul language but the rest of the week cusses up a storm, a person who speaks of love and caring for others but puts self-first in most situations.
So let’s look at it aging:
You are 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: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like, that is: You are to love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
Now let’s all go and do our best to live it out, put God first then others then self.