Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Love the LORD your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no commandment grater than these.
Love the LORD your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no commandment grater than these.
We are summoned to love God with our whole being. We are to take into account every perspective, every approach, attitude, response, and hidden spot tucked within us and surrender it all to Him.
When I am happy and healthy, all too often I become lukewarm or in other words, 'fat and sassy.' I am to contemplate whether I am relinquishing all things--my stressful decisions, the dark cloud of anxiety, the haunting guilt of the past--all these encompass the daily grappling of my thoughts. Yet even when these matters drive me to prayer, I am detached and afraid of facing who and what I truly am. Listen to the words of J. Heinrich Arnold,
"The fact that I seek God at all in times of misfortune shows my deepest being actually hungers and thirsts for him. We should bring our fears to God. We should bring him our sickness and anguish. But this is not enough. We must give him our innermost being, our heart and soul. When we humble ourselves before him in this way and give ourselves completely over to him--when we no longer resist giving him our whole person and whole personality--then he can help us, first by bringing us to bankruptcy and then by filling us with true life."
Is there any other way to live?
- My heart: affections, emotions...the core of my nature
- My soul: life, character, and spiritual self
- My mind: thoughts, psyche, and intellect
- My strength: source, supply, and physical provisions
When I am happy and healthy, all too often I become lukewarm or in other words, 'fat and sassy.' I am to contemplate whether I am relinquishing all things--my stressful decisions, the dark cloud of anxiety, the haunting guilt of the past--all these encompass the daily grappling of my thoughts. Yet even when these matters drive me to prayer, I am detached and afraid of facing who and what I truly am. Listen to the words of J. Heinrich Arnold,
"The fact that I seek God at all in times of misfortune shows my deepest being actually hungers and thirsts for him. We should bring our fears to God. We should bring him our sickness and anguish. But this is not enough. We must give him our innermost being, our heart and soul. When we humble ourselves before him in this way and give ourselves completely over to him--when we no longer resist giving him our whole person and whole personality--then he can help us, first by bringing us to bankruptcy and then by filling us with true life."
Is there any other way to live?
All to Jesus I surrender All to Him I freely give.
ReplyDeleteI will ever love and trust Him. In His presence daily live.
I surrender all. I surrender all. All to thee my blessed Savior, i surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender, Humbly at his feet I bow.
WOrldly pleasures all forsaken, Take me, Jesus, take me now.
All to Jesus I surrender, Make me, Jesus, wholly thine.
May Thy Holy SPirit fill me, May I know thy power divine.
All to Jesus I surrneder, Lord, I give myself to Thee. Fill me with thy love and power, Let thy blessing fall on me.
I surrender all. I surrender all. All to thee my blessed Savior, i surrender all.
I Surrender all by VanDeVenter