Love God... the Greatest Commandment!

Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength... the greatest commandment! ~ Mark 12:30. What does that mean? It means just that... Love God! Spend time with Him, not someone or anyone else. Wait for His guidance... don't run out and just do something because you think that's the right thing to do or because someone told you to or because everyone else is doing it. 

When you start spending time with God, you won't have much time for anything or anyone else. But, that's OK because God wants the same from everyone: rich or poor, free or imprisoned, ignorant or intelligent, skilled or unskilled, black or white, male or female .. etc. He wants you to want Him and Him alone for He is a jealous God! He wants this because He loved you first! Yes, "Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes" ~ Ephesians 1:4.

Remember this story in Luke 10 ~
"As Jesus and the disciples came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”

But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.” ~ Luke 10:38-42.

You see folks, worldly business is a snare to us even that which seems to have good intentions like Martha. But, when it hinders us from serving God which is to rest in His Presence and Peace, then we actually become distant from God and in the world. What needless time is wasted, and expense often laid out! The favor of God is needful to our happiness; and, salvation in Jesus Christ is needful to our safety and our eternity in Him. 

For this is the one thing that is most needful; and, this one thing is what Mary knew which was to give up herself to Jesus Christ. Where this is attended to, over all other things, there is His Will is being done. The things of this life will be taken away from us as we shall be taken away from them; but nothing shall separate from the love of Christ and a part in that love. Men and devils cannot take it away from us. Let us be mindful of the one thing that we need more of ~ Jesus Christ.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple" ~ Luke 14:26.