WOW... looks like it's back to the drawing board!

Today's sermon at church was by a young elder who I had been speaking to earlier this week about how much rubbish is on TV (although we both admitted to liking Desperate Housewives).
This sermon was about Loving God which I thought I was pretty good at until he destroyed me. He started by drawing the congregation's attention to Matthew 22:34-40 where Jesus summarises the greatest commandment as Loving God and the second as loving your neighbours.

The preacher reiterated that love is shown through actions and as Jesus said in that same passage, that means with all your mind, with all your heart, soul and strength. He broke all these down using the context matched with the original greek meanings which had been translated.

To cut a long story short, it was deep! It was as if someone had punched my face.... I was thinking 'oh, maybe this love thing isn't as easy as i thought....'. I also realised that in actual fact to my complete horror I do not love God... I like Him a lot but in order to love Him I must give more of my heart, my psyche, my passions, my time, my energy, my thoughts, my desires, my dreams... the list goes on. Although in everything I do He is at the back of my mind, it's not good enough, He should be at the foreront of mind and I have been commanded to love Him with all my heart (not the flesh coz that's impossible but the centre of my being, my very core).

So on this new found knowledge that I don't love God what am I going to do about it? Well first I have to pray and ask for forgiveness for paying such little attention to the author and finisher of our faith.... then I need change my schedule to suit God rather than myself... I haven't been making enough effort to do that. It's going to be difficult but I have to start somewhere.

Check yourself to make sure that your not like me! Your actions must speak louder than your words or it's just lip service!

Bye for now

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