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9 “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your
father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for
the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will
reject you forever.”
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Chronicles 28:9 (NIV)
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with
this question: 36 “Teacher,
which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus
replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.”
Matthew
22:35-38 (NIV)
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take
up his cross and follow me.”
Matt 16:24
(NIV)
BUTTER
“The Christian way is different:
harder and easier. Christ says,
‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of
your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you… No half-measures are any
good. I don’t want to cut off a branch
here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down…Hand over the whole
natural self, all the
desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked – the
whole outfit. I will give you a new
self instead. I will give you
Myself: My own will shall become
yours.’” C.S. Lewis
“Seek, O
believer, that every good thing you have may be an abiding thing. May your
character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! May
your faith be no ‘baseless fabric of a vision,’ but may it be built of material
able to endure that awful fire which shall consume the wood, hay, and stubble
of the hypocrite. May you be rooted and
grounded in love. May your convictions be deep, your love real, your desire
earnest. May your whole life be so firm and strong, that all the blasts of hell
and the storms of earth shall never be able to remove you.” Charles
Spurgeon
“O Lord our God,
grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart.” Anselm
HEART SAVOR
- · God desires my wholehearted devotion and willing mind.
- · I am to live life with open hands – He gives, He takes away – all for my good and for His glory – never one surpassing the other. The abundant life comes only in relinquishing my grip. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)
- · My life in Christ is to be so firm and strong that tribulations will not move me. My Anchor holds.
