Matthew 22:34-40 – 34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The first and most important commandment Jesus reminds us is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Simply stated that’s a command to make him number one, before anything else in our lives. Before we think of ourselves, our wants, our goals, even our family, we are supposed to give it all to God first.
Here’s where the trickle down method finally does work. Once you serve God and love Him with every fiber of your being and seek what He wants for your life, the rest will fall into place.
You see He wants you to take care of your family. He wants you to make Him first in your family. He wants you to pass this commandment onto them and have you all serve Him every day.
God wants you. He wants your love and He isn’t looking for a robot that has no choice.
But just as your children have a choice, you want them to love you. You want them to make the right decisions. You want them to have a respectful loving relationship with you. Your desire is to reward them and take care of them.
Unless of course, they’re bent on evil. They never call you on the phone. They never care to know how you’re doing. They’re too busy fulfilling their selfish desires, or worse.
Do you still love them? Let me answer that one for you. You should. I would like to also add right here that if you are in this situation, pray. Every day. Don’t under estimate the power of prayer. Satan would love for you to under estimate the power of prayer.
God has given us a model in many things in our lives that we either overlook or choose to ignore and this is one them. God loves us as His children and constantly wants us to snap out of it and reconnect.
The greatest commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Yet in our society and in these last days, were lucky if we squeeze in 60 seconds for Him.
Tomorrow is the second most important commandment, which “is like it.”