Love the Lord

Love the Lord

" Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Luke 10:27

This Sunday, CDC had the privilege of Pastor Richard share the message on a quiet Chinese New Year weekend. The topic of the day was focused on the Greatest Commandments.

Every year, we tend to make New Year resolutions, planning to improve ourselves in one way or another, do this or that. However, more often than not, they are quickly forgotten, and before you know it, another year has passed. This New Year, Pastor Richard challenged us to forget about resolutions but focus on one simple thing – obedience.

The entire Bible is summed up in just two commandments –

(a)    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind

(b)    Love your neighbor as yourself

Pastor Richard shared with us that to love the Lord with all our heart and soul is to love with all our passion. We need to love God with fierce emotion, seriously seeking Him and wanting to know Him better. This we need to do in basically two ways, listening to Him by reading His Word, and talking to Him through prayer.

Secondly, to love God with all our mind means to think constantly of Him and to safeguard our minds from images, thoughts and materials which do not glorify God. We need to be disciplined to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Finally, to love God with all our strength means to love God with all our ability, everything that God has given us – our time, resources, talent and money.

The second commandment, to love our neighbor as ourselves is easy to understand, but hard to do. Pastor Richard stressed especially on the topic of forgiveness. We need to first of all learn to forgive those who have hurt us for only by forgiving will we truly be released to love.

May the Lord help us love Him with all our hearts and souls and minds and strengths, and enable us to love our neighbors as ourselves.

God bless,

Jason