First Commandment

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And 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 great and first commandment. And the second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 22:36-40, RecVer)

Today morning I was freshly enlightened concerning loving the Lord. I have been harboring a general concept of loving the Lord just as believing into Him. However, through the pursuing of message spoken by Br. Watchman Nee, I was helped to see the distinction between believing and loving the Lord.

Believing into Jesus does not necessary require one's whole being just as the requirements for loving the Lord. He who believes into Jesus are saved. As simple as that. Anyone who believes are saved. This requirement for salvation from eternal perdition is to believe into Jesus Christ. Only after believing, can one love the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Bible says that the first and great commandment is to love the Lord "with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is a commandment! It is not a choice, but a cammand! What a salvation to see that I must obey God by loving Him with my whole being!

Loving God is the solution to the problems caused by temptations of the world. When one loves God, everything else fades away. The best way to overcome the world and its lust is by loving the Lord with all of our heart that there is no room for anything other than the Lord. What a revelation!

Why Christians still love the world is because they do not love the Lord with their whole being. There are still rooms for the world with its riches, glitters, glories, and lust in the heart that do not love the Lord wholeheartedly. Only if Christians keep the commandment of God to love God wholeheartedly, they will be overcomers and they will have nothing to do with the world nor the world with them. Yet for this, the heart needs circumcision, to deal with anything other than Christ, so that it can love Jehovah God wholeheartedly. 

And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, so that you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (Deuteronomy 30:6, RecVer)

With this renewed seeing, my prayer has now been for loving God with all of my being. "Lord Jesus, I love You. Lord Jesus, cause me to love You more and more each day with my whole being."

This is the secret to living an overcoming life. This is the secret to enjoying the Christian life. This is the secret to magnify Christ, glorify Christ, and live Christ. The secret is keeping the first commandment of God, Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Lord Jesus, I love You.