Nourishment and refreshment for your soul.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
When I was in elementary school, the declaration listed above was a very common promise between little girls. After sharing a vital piece of information with a best friend, we would very solemnly draw a cross on our hearts with two fingers, and then pledge to fulfill our cross my heart oath … even to the point of death. Usually these childish cross my heart pledges were made late in the night, between giggles, as we shared our secrets with one another. I look fondly back on these childhood promises; some broken, some kept.
In the book of Deuteronomy, God calls us to make a very solemn promise: a cross your heart kind of promise. He vows to never leave us or forsake us. He takes our sin and our shame. He etches a cross upon our heart and asks us to love Him with all our strength. It is a promise never broken, always kept to the point of death … even death on a cross. Cross His heart and we have hope when we die.
Action Points.
1. Have you asked Jesus to be your Savior? If not, please click on the link below.
2. Is God not just your first priority, but your every priority?
3. What needs to shift so God can be a greater priority?
4. How do you love God with all your heart? All your soul? All your mind?
Life is sweet!
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