“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your
God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.”
Deuteronomy 8:6
Nowhere
in God’s Word are we instructed to be partially devoted to the Lord. The Old
Testament tells us in Deuteronomy 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with ALL
your heart, with ALL your soul, and with ALL your strength.” Jesus reminds of
these words in Mark 12:30 “And you shall love the Lord your God with ALL your
heart, with ALL your soul, with ALL your mind, and with ALL your strength.” Our
praise and worship should be with our WHOLE heart as well. Psalm 9:1 says “I
will praise You, O Lord, with my WHOLE heart.” It should not be lip service, it
should be done with the heart. The book of Revelations is a reminder to us about
how we should be living before Him. He takes note if He is not first place in
our lives. There were seven churches and only one was he pleased with. This
should be a warning to us. Most of the churches had done many things that were
right. He told them that He had seen this. But they had done some things that
He was against. These things were: 1) they had left their first love, 2) they
let people eat things that were sacrificed to idols, 3) they allowed sexual
immorality, 4) they allowed wrong doctrine which caused the people to stumble, 5)
they allowed someone that called themselves a prophet—the woman Jezebel—to
teach, 6) they allowed Jezebel to seduce His servants, 7) one church was
completely dead—they had a reputation for being alive, but they weren’t, and 8)
another church was neither cold nor hot. God wished they were one or the other.
Since they weren’t He was going to vomit them out of His mouth. They said they
were rich and had need of nothing, but they didn’t realize that they were
wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. He wanted them to remember from
where they had fallen, repent, and do the works that they had done in the
beginning. Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to examine our lives today. Do we love
God with ALL our hearts, ALL our souls, ALL our minds, and ALL our strength?
Let’s make sure we are not partially devoted to the Lord. Let’s give Him our
ALL.
Father, may we fear You and walk in Your ways. May we love
You with ALL our hearts, ALL our souls, ALL our minds, and ALL our strength.
Examine our hearts today. Show us where we are wrong. Remind us to how much we
have fallen. May we repent and do the works that we had done in the beginning. We
don’t want to be partially devoted to You. We want for You to consider us “hot.”
We want to give it our ALL. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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