What Matters Most

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:30-31

 

 

How easy it is to get caught up in what I would call the:

‘Cause de Jour’

Whatever happens to be the hottest trend in our culture, politics and, yes, sometimes even the church.

The bible paints a picture in Ephesians 4:14 of an immature

(It uses the word infant)

believer being tossed back and forth by waves and being blown here and there by every wind and wave of teaching.

We can so easily do that.

We can venerate teaching above our relationship with the Lord.

Now, if you know me well enough, you know I would never promote ignorance of the Word of God.

But neither would I encourage you to be so knowledgeable as to impress the greatest theologians of our day but miss the boat, so to speak, when it comes to being head over heels in love with the Lord and with others.

Jesus, at the young age of 12, astounded the teachers of His day.

But He did not declare “It is finished” then!

His purpose in coming in the flesh was not to display the great wisdom and knowledge of God – although He could.

His purpose was to display (and live out) the love of His Father for each of us.

Don’t miss Gods’ ultimate for you by missing the main point –

(and as one might expect – Jesus said it best when referring to today’s text...)

“There is no commandment greater than these.”