In Mark 12:30 Jesus says "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." This was in response to the question "what is the most important commandment?"
Notice how hard it is for everyone to follow this commandment. Even long practicing Christians find themselves holding things back from God. They choose to love themselves, or Elvis, or the new BMW, but not God. And not with ALL of themselves, body, spirit and thought, and definitely not as much or as strongly as they can.
Why do we hold back? What do we fear? Are we just being selfish? What good will it do anyway?
Everyone has their own reasons, for many it is lack of faith or fear of punishment. If you confess to God, he will forgive you. Jesus took on your sin so that you didn't have to die for it. You will not be punished, God is not up their with lightning bolts looking to hit you when you sin. God is here with open arms, waiting to hug you and love you. You just have to GO TO HIM! Jesus died so that you could have that relationship with Him. Do not be afraid of God.
When you let God in, healing can begin. Imagine what it would be like if you let him in with ALL your heart, ALL your soul, ALL your mind, and ALL your strength? God is faithful, he will never let you down. Its just us mere dusty humans that do the disappointing...
Heavenly Father, I just pray that we search ourselves and decide to reveal what we are hiding. You already know all of us, for you created us, but I pray we come to you with it, and allow ourselves to be forgiven and loved by you. Help us to open up to you, to love you with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. Help us to understand how deep, how wide, and how long your love is for us...
You have the power Lord, help us with what we cannot do on our own. In Jesus Name, Amen
Ephesians 3:16-21 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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