Friday, July 30, 2010

The Greatest Commandment

Reading in Mark 12.29, this morning where someone asks Jesus, "What is the greatest commandment?" His answer is here. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength."

He begins, however, not with the commandment but with a statement. "Listen Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one." An emphasis on the fact that he is the only God and reminder that the tendency of every heart is to create idol after idol?

Whatever else one may say about this statement, Christ is certainly pointing out that any commandment has authority only if it is grounded in the character of God the Father.


- "Grace is the glory of God, not the merit of him who has been freed." Prosper of Aquitaine

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