The Greatest Commandment!

 We serve a truly amazing GOD.  Our FATHER in Heaven can do anything.  In fact, our FATHER in Heaven created everything.  Our FATHER is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.  Our FATHER is Gracious, Righteous, Holy, Merciful and Just.

But our FATHER is also a jealous GOD and the first four Commandments dealswith the way are to serve our FATHER.  The four Commandments say:

"You shall have no other gods before me."

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them nor serve the.  For I the LORD your GOD, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who have ME, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love me and keep MY Commandments."

"You shall not take the name of the LORD THY GOD in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes HIS Name in vain."

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy".

And this tells us such a lot about the character of our FATHER in Heaven and it lines up so well with what we know and understand of our FATHER.

Therefore, when Jesus was asked, "What is the greatest Commandment of all?" by the Pharisee, He answered:  "Love the LORD YOUR GOD with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength".

If we follow this Commandment, we are being obedient to the WILL of GOD.

This also keeps us from sinning.  When we love the LORD our GOD above all else, we want to please HIM.  We do not want to sin because we know that HE cannot be in the presence of sin.  We also know that we need to follow the second great Commandment that Jesus gave, to love our neighbour as ourselves.  Because GOD loves us all.  

GOD wants a loving relationship with all HIS children and therefore each one of us needs to love GOD and each other.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I love YOU so much.  Show me daily how to please YOU and how to live for YOU with all my heart. Show me YOUR WILL and show me how to die to self and serve YOU alone.  

FATHER I humbly ask this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

Stay obediently GOD blessed today!