Upside Down

We as His Church have the God given freedom to decide where the practise of His Greatest Commandment - personally and corporately - sits in our list of practices, passions and priorities.

God has made His position on it clear. Now we have the freedom to choose.

No amount of good works changes the priority He has stated for the Greatest Commandments.

One comes first.

Always.

Everything we could possibly long for, everything we were made for, every breath we take is to first and foremost lose ourselves in the Greatest Commandment.

All else flows, with His mighty resurrection power, through this.

He wants your heart more than anything you can do for Him.

He wants His Church’s love and attention before anything we can do for Him. There are no shortcuts on this very simple, very powerful, very profound order of our attention and affection and I believe, when we dive into this, we will also take a large stride further into the fullness of the beauty, we, the Church, were made for.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[b] 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Matthew 22:36-38

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.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.