Matthew 22:34-37
34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a]
Wow! It has really been a long time since my last post! Please forgive me. Today I really felt led to check out my blog and after changing a couple of things I asked my wife if she would check out my blog. ”Cool,” she says, ” I really like it.” After that she told me that I ought to check out my last blog post (Am I content). WOW! I have been struggling for a long time with this thing called idol worship. I think that most of us can relate. We as Christians want to be more like Jesus. We read our Bibles and pray everyday, or sometimes…We think we are trying our best at this thing called Christianity, but to be quite frank, our best will never be good enough.
Let me tell you what happens when we try “our” best. Bad things happen. I have been trying to do this on my own for too long and the Lord, once again, got ahold of me. He led me to listen to some sermons from a friend from Bible College who is now a pastor at Reality LA. ”realityla.com” The Lord used the sermons on Subversion to radically change my life. Particularly concerning the idols that I still hold on my heart. He has changed me so much that I have put many things that I believe might be idols at the foot of the cross, including my wife, my children, and even my snowboard. And for those of you who know me well know that those have been the most important things in my life. My wife and my children will always be a high priority in my life, but they can never take the number one position in my heart. They always need to be second to Jesus. If they are, then I will be a better husband and father because of it. Maybe even a better snowboarder! LOL.
Reading the passage from Matthew 22:34-37 really stumps me, and if you read Dueteronomy 6:5 it also says to love the Lord with all your strength. I really struggle with that. Not that I don’t want to love Jesus with everything I am. But I don’t even think that I can wrap my mind around Loving the Lord with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. So I am asking Him to help me. To give me the power of His Spirit to love Him with all I’ve got.
Philippians 4:13 says “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” John 15:5 says “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing.” We cannot live this Christian life without Jesus. Are you at a stand still in your walk? Are you walking in place or maybe even backslidden? Or another question…Do you love Jesus? Jesus said “If you love Me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15) It is time for us to renounce the idols that have our heart and our full attention and let Jesus, who paid the ultimate price for our sins, to take His rightful place on the throne of our lives! Ask Him to point out the idols in your life and and be obedient to Him and place them at the foot of the cross. You wont be sorry!!!
God Bless You!
