Quiet Time 2 April 2012

Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The LORD our God is the one and only LORD. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

The teacher of religious law replied, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth by saying that there is only one God and no other. **And I know it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law**.” (Mark 12:29-33 NLT)

Excerpt of devotion:

Christ touches every area of our lives...We are told to fear God, love Christ and hate sin. Fear, love and hate are emotions... What's wrong with emotion? Christianity is falling in love with Christ. Has anyone ever fallen in love without emotion?

I love praise and worship becos i can just feel free to let my hair down just sing sing sing to God. It consists of various emotions such as joy, gratitude, thanksgiving and even sorrow. Whatever the case is, I feel God's love the most. His unfailing love.

While I'm on the journey of loving God more and more each day, I'm also starting to serve God in various different ministries such as leading discussion, praise & worship, and administrative duties such as coordination of cell group events. Others include group food reviews.

This is the area which I'm currently struggling with: serving God. I'm not sure if I should serve in areas which I'm not comfortable doing such as leading discussion or group food reviews, cos I'm not outspoken by nature and it really zaps me out totally everytime, in turn affecting my family time.

In the above passage, I learn that first and foremost I need to obey the top 2 commandments. Love God, love people. Nothing else really matters.

Haiz, I'm not sure man. God, pls direct me. Am I plain lazy? Or should I focus on what's more important?