“Love The Lord Your God With All Your Heart”

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it:

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Matthew 22:34-40

We pour our lives into hobbies, pleasures, activities, and work. All of those are good things. But two things should always be thought about when making our choices. Love God, and love your neighbors as yourself.

When it seems our life is getting out of balance, the question should come to us about whether any hobby or pleasure ever loved us back. Keep that thought in mind to keep you in check. Loving God and loving people are what really count.

We show our love for God

when we share His love with others.

Our Daily Bread – February 28, 2009