In a brief biography of St. Francis of Assis, G. K. Chesterton begins with a glimpse into the heart of this unique and compassionate man born in the 12th century. Chesterton writes: "As St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ... The reader cannot even begin to see the sense of a story that may well seem to him a very wild one, until he understands that to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair."
When Jesus was asked to name the greatest command in the Law, He replied, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment". The questioner wanted to test Jesus, but the Lord answered him with the key element in pleasing God. First and foremost, our relationship with Him is a matter of the heart.
If we see God as a taskmaster and consider obedience to Him as a burden, then we have joined those of whom the Lord said, "I have this against you, that you have left your first love".
The way of joy is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind. - David C. McCasland
Oh, help me, Lord, to take by grace divine
Yet more and more of that great love of Thine;
That day by day my heart may give to Thee
A deeper love, and grow more constantly. - Mountain
Put Christ first and you'll find a joy that lasts.
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Matthew 22:34-40
But hearing that He had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees were gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked, tempting Him and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
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A lover of God, a follower of God, a great fan of God... It seems to be so easy to me years ago... why it become something almost impossible for me now? not that not willing to, but with taking the consideration of time, faithfulness and son on... that's seriously not easy...
Anyway, God, I want to thank You that what had given to me... and with that, I want to do all my best to follow you as what I had promised to You... Father Lord, please help me... tho all these simply because of him, but still, I want it... and wish to be a blessing for him...
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