Matthew 22:37  – “Jesus answered him, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that is within you.’”

As I reflect on things today, the overriding thought in my heart is LOVE!   God’s incredible, unalterable, and unconditional love!    The Love God has for us is impossible to fully comprehend because we tend to compare it to human love.   God’s Love is unselfish, but human love always seems to have an element of selfishness in it.

Matthew 22:37 instructs us to Love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind.   That is very interesting.   Repeatedly in the Bible, we are told to believe in our hearts and forgive from the heart, and now Jesus says we are to love from the heart. 

The heart is the seat of who we are!   He says we are to love with the soul, and most definitions of the soul are “mind, will, and emotions.” However, when He included loving God with our minds, that causes one to possibly reconsider that definition of the soul. Maybe there is more to it than we have considered.

The emphasis is that we are to love God with our ALL.   Body, Soul, Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Emotions – With our entire being!   He is to be the focus of our lives, the center of our universe, and the all-consuming passion of our ambitions and dreams. 

If God is sought first above and before everything, He will make everything else better and properly relegate things in our lives.  Life has no easy buttons, but when God truly holds our hearts, minds, wills, bodies, goals, dreams, ambitions, and souls, Life becomes easier because we operate from His Strength!

In Gethsemane, Jesus said, “Not My will but Thine be done!”   He asked if there was an alternative plan but surrendered to the plan.   It would not be easy, but it was the only possible way for mankind to be redeemed, so He said Yes!    Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.  I ask, did He?  I believe the answer is yes!

If He did what He was assigned and He did, why do we not exercise the authority He says we have?   Why do we live settling for less than God’s promises?  Why do we justify our inadequacy when we have the promise of His adequacy to guide and empower us? One reason is that we believe the devil’s report and have a wrong view of who we are. 

• It is time we reprogram our minds to become filled with Him and His Promises and Provisions. 
• It is time that we live as though God is telling the truth because He is. 
• It is time that we enforce the victory of Calvary. 
• It is time for us to exercise the spiritual authority He has given us. 
• It is time that we become manifestations of the Kingdom of God and pull down the strongholds that hinder us. 
• It is time for us to set the captive free and do the works Jesus did and the greater works He declared we could do! 

Today is your day of victory!  So, let us begin to expect God’s promise to be realized in our present.   This is the day the Lord has made; we should rejoice and be glad in it! 

Victory is ours, in Jesus!