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Podcast 58.3 Transcript, 6.3 REPLAYED
Welcome to Thursday Thoughts at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s think about this.
Hast Thou not bid me love Thee, God and King?
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16 ESV
Rhetorical question. Of course He bids us to love. We know this because He loved us first, then invites us to abide or live in that love so He, and His love, may abide in us. If you know that love, are you living your life responding to it?
All, all Thine own, soul, heart and strength and mind.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Mark 12:30 ESV
The Great Commandment, or at least the first half of it. Love for God, demonstrated by a love for all the things associated with God, is the command. This is not as easy as it seems becuase other things compete with our affection for God. What is competing for yours?
I see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling:
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 ESV
We cling to the cross because we not only see it, but understand what it represents to us. God first loved us by paying the penalty our sin required. When we truly see the cross, we learn to cling. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach your heart to cling to the cross.
Oh, let me seek Thee, and, oh, let me find!
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 ESV
How can I cling to someone or something I am still seeking to find? I purpose to cling to that which I have understood and known with the hope that this close proximity fosters a longing for even more, for there is always more of God’s love than I have apprehended. Ask the Holy Spirit to call you deeper into that love.
Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has come to your mind, or just listen to what He is saying to you, then I will read our text once more.
Hast Thou not bid me love Thee, God and King?
All, all Thine own, soul, heart and strength and mind.
I see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling:
Oh, let me seek Thee, and, oh, let me find!
Take the mindfulness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond. Until next time, be Resonant.
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