Pastor's One on One Weekly Devotion

December 2, 2011

Serving God with your Whole Heart

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, Deuteronomy 6:5

When reading Pastor's One on One Devotionals--there are two main themes that you will see repeated over and over in many of the articles.  The first theme is the extreme importance of each and every Christian's full surrender to the Lord so that He can then enter them into His perfect plan and destiny for their lives. 

The second main theme that you will see repeated over and over again, is the extreme importance that each and every Christian seek to establish a good, close, intimate and personal relationship with the Lord.

When you really stop and think about the big picture, and what is really most important in this life, then study the Bible to see where all of our priorities should be set at in this life - there is one special message and revelation that comes jumping off all the pages of the Bible. This one special message and revelation is that God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit are looking to establish, and make a direct, one-on-one, intimate, personal relationship with each person He has created.

God knew beforehand that Adam and Eve were going to blow it in the Garden of Eden. God knew beforehand that every man and woman that would be born after them would all turn out to be unholy sinners in His sight, and that none of us would ever be good enough, or righteous enough to be able to enter into His kingdom on any of our own good works.

At this point, God could have easily given up on the entire human race after the fall of Adam and Eve, but for some strange reason, He chose not to do so. Why?

When you really stop to think about what unholy sinners we all really are, and how fallen and corrupt our human nature really is, you have to wonder - what does God see in any of us that makes us so redeemable in His sight?

Why would God the Father go to such extreme and painful lenghts to bring us all back to Himself, by sending down His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to our cursed earth to go through the worst and most horrible form of physical death that anyone could have possibly undergone at the time He came down to our world - crucifixion by nails?

For God the Father to go to such an extreme and painful length to get all of us back to Himself shows us only one possible thing - and that one thing is how much our God really, truly, and unconditionally loves each man and each women He has ever created.