Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, March 28, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
It’s so simple. Just one rule. One rule which, if we all followed it, would transform all of existence. But simple doesn’t mean easy. There’s the matter of interpretation. How does one love God in this way? What does it look like? I don’t think it’s limited to just making sure you get to worship regularly, or develop a prayer practice, or read the Bible.
To me, loving God with all my heart, soul, and mind means honoring all of creation as God’s and all humanity as being created in God’s image, and therefore it includes loving our neighbor as ourselves and preserving and restoring the natural environment. Well, that’s not easy! Look at the mess we’ve made of it!
So we keep striving. We keep sharing the message of God’s undying devotion to us and all of creation in everything we do. We teach our children these things, we ingrain them in our very being, so that we never forget who we are and whose we are. And hopefully this rule becomes so central to our being that we can’t help but act out in love for God, neighbor, and the world.
What does the “great commandment” mean to me? How do I follow it?
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