God's Most Important Rule

It seems only appropriate to begin my first blog with a revelation that changed the way I view the Lord and viewed myself. There are so many things that Holy Spirit has sweetly spoken to my soul that has brought me deeper into this new life of Christianity, but one particularly seems to always be the center of my messages and my thoughts.

In Mark 12, there are "scribes," debating with one another asking the question: out of all the commandments, which one is most important? Reminds me of when I was a child and the mental list of rules from my mother. I knew which rules I could break and get away with and others where punishment was inevitable.

So these scribes ask Jesus - "which commandment is the most important of all?" Seems like a good question from a child of God. Jesus replies:

"The most important is, ' Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength," (vs 30).

There we go readers, the most important command given by God to us. If you are too quick, you will read over it and not let it sink. Not let it settle. The Lord is telling us His greatest rule, to "love me."

If you do not know the story of the Gospel well or the character of God that may seem narcissistic but actually it is God giving you the remedy to turn a broken life into a life of freedom and joy.

If you love God with everything you have, you will never be the same. What is everything? Lets dive into the original language of the verse, Greek. Everything is your heart (kardia meaning your thoughts, passions, desires and appetites), your soul (psychē, meaning your breath by implication your very spirit and life), your mind (dianoia, all your intellect and reasoning), and your strength (ischys, your power, might and ability).

When I think of these different facets of my being and loving God fully in it, wow, it always gives me adrenaline thinking of the relationship I am allowed to have with this mighty and creative God.

What Holy Spirit revealed to me was that when you love God with everything you have then two things will happen: one, you will know who your Father is and two, you will discover who you were created to be.

It is a relationship of love between an adopted child of God* and their Heavenly Father that a Christian life is built.

*Galatians 4: 4-7, 1 John 3:1, Ephesians 1:5