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| “Love the Lord your God…” |
| —Mark 12:30a |
Looking for some guidance as to how to live your life? Struggling to know what “obedience” to God’s will and His Word really means?
The Great Commandment tells us in Mark 12:30:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
In each of these human modalities—emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical—we are to harbor within us an ever-increasing love for the God who first loved us with His everlasting love.
How can we do this? We need to become “transformed” through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. That transformation is the essence of the Apostle Paul’s exhortation to the church at Rome as recorded in Romans 12:1-2:
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
As we begin a new day, let us surrender our will to God’s will and allow Him to renew, refresh, restore, and fundamentally transform us, so that we may go out as “salt and light” into a needy and troubled world. Doing so will allow us to truly love the Lord our God with the totality of our being.
