And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment
وتحب الرب الهك من كل قلبك ومن كل نفسك ومن كل فكرك ومن كل قدرتك هذه
هي الوصية الاولى
Mark 12:30
In the last two devotions we covered how to ‘love God
with all your heart’ and ‘love God with all your soul’. Today let’s discover
how to ‘love God with all your mind.’
What does it really mean for me to love God with all
my mind?
In order for me to love God with all my mind, I need
to fill my mind with God’s Word. When I agree with God it awakens love in me,
and my love for God is continually refueled when my mind encounters truth over
and over again. When I use my mind to remember His qualities, and His love for
me, I am putting love in my mind’s memory bank. Since I treasure my
relationship with the Lord, my thoughts and memory reflect that.
In order to bring my ship
(life) in from the storm, the rudder of my
ship (my thoughts and memory) needs to be my love for God with all my mind.
How do I do that? God teaches
me that:
“I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their
minds I will write them,”
اجعل
نواميسي في قلوبهم واكتبها في اذهانهم
Hebrews 10:16
So my love for God with all my mind will be
demonstrated by my thoughts and memories of God in my life and the rudder of my
ship is controlled by every Word that God has written in my mind.
I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:
Abba
Father, thank You for Your unfailing, inseparable, deep and everlasting love
for me, Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace
upon my life. Thank You God for writing Your laws in my mind. Lord, help me and
teach me to fill my mind with Your Word and to be in agreement with it. Lord,
awaken love in me, and continually refuel my love for You. Help me to use my
mind to remember Your qualities, and Your love for me, and to store love for
You in my mind’s memory bank. In Jesus’ name I pray. To Jesus be the power, the
glory, the majesty, the blessings, and the dominion before all time and now and
forever. Amen.
Jesus loves you,
In Him,
Wagdi Henein
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