Deuteronomy 6:5 5

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

During your travels, doing tasks, errands and such, do you ever think of God and how much He loves you?

Well, I try to always keep Him in my moments of the day and night.

Good times, bad times, and all the in-between times,  I try to consciously tell Him how much I love Him, and thank Him, and praise Him.

He did give us a commandment, “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Det. 6:5)

So, while loving Him, essentially, I’m obeying His commandment, but not only by choice, and obedience to Him, and who He is,— but because I truly adore and worship Him with all of my being.

It’s two very different things to “follow because of fear” and doing it because it’s the “thing to do” in order to get to heaven; versus to “follow because of love” and because “it’s by choice.”

When we choose to love our Father, our merciful God Almighty, we are not only adhering to His commandment, but doing so freely, which brings “pleasure to the Father,” and He created all things for His pleasure (Rev 4.)

The Hymn “Blessed Assurance” really brings home the point…well to me at least.  It is a song that brings tears to my eyes each time I sing it.

MY story, my song, Jesus is mine!

What’s your story?  

Are you loving Him with all that you are?

Do you choose Him freely and willingly because of that love?

If you haven’t met your LORD and Savior, may I invite you to open our Father’s love letter to us,  the Holy Bible.

Get to know Him, and start living a life that only He can provide!

“Father God, I love You, thank You for loving me since the beginning of time, today and always, I choose You now, I choose you tomorrow, and all the days of my life and beyond, in Jesus name, Amen.”

* Blessed Assurance (Hymn)

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine;
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

*Blessed Assurance. ” Blessed Assurance ” is a well-known Christian hymn.

The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby to the music written in 1873 by Phoebe Knapp . (C)

*Reference : Blessed Assurance – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Assurance

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