MY GREATEST FAILURE

November 7, 2018

Matthew 22:37

“Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ’’

I know I love the Lord, but my love is not as total and as pure as I know He expects of me. I am too distracted and consumed by so many little things that take away my complete devotion to Him. My love for God is supposed to be “with all my heart and all my soul and all my mind.” It’s clear that I cannot love God with all my body without first loving Him with all my heart and soul because the body responds to instructions from the heart, soul, and mind. Once my internal love for God is complete, my body actions will follow suit.

And that’s why I know I do not love Him as entirely as I ought to. My greatest failure is allowing my heart, my soul and my mind to wander off into the murky waters of worldly distractions; and in so doing, my body wanders off also into these sublime waters, resulting in it serving “humanly important agendas” that war against my total devotion to Christ. I love God earnestly, but not sincerely enough. I love God passionately, but not intensely enough. I know He’s not satisfied with this grade of love from me and I refuse to give myself any excuses for it. I must rise from the ashes, and under His grace, I must pursue after and exert all that’s within me, until my love is as red a flame as is His fiery love for me.

“O God, I will not accept less than total love for You, but I earnestly need Your help to overcome the small foxes that keep my love for You at an average level. I know You don’t want average and I refuse to settle for average love. Burn afresh in me that I may turn around and burn afresh for You. In Jesus name. Amen.”

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