"One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, 'Of all the commandments, which is the most important?'
'The most important one,' answered Jesus 'is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one.' Love your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."
Mark 12: 29-31 NIV
This is a call to passion! This is a call to ignite and unite our heart, soul, mind, and strength in love first to God and second to others. In activating this form of divine love, the synergy that is created transcends any quick fix substitute that this world has to offer.
The model for this love, while it stands above the scope of human understanding can be witnessed by the choice to embrace a relationship with God. Have you made that choice?
Would you like to make that choice? Do you know how to make that choice?
Without the activation of this vital relationship, the soul will always be empty. This is an emptiness that is far too common in our world and yet there is a divine solution. The solution is available to every single human being. It does not matter who you are or what you have done. It doesn't matter how wretched your past has been. God has a solution for your life that transcends anything the world has to offer.
Nothing else will ever compare! Nothing else can truly satisfy the soul. Have you experienced an emptiness deep inside your being? Maybe an emptiness that calls you to do something you really don't even want to do? For me the emptiness often manifested itself in shopping trips, overindulgence of gourmet food, the constant hunger for something more, and in my earlier years in sordid relationships with men that were all wrong for me. Please let me make myself clear... this is not the passion of which I speak. Hollywood mistakenly paints short term romantic liaisons as something enticing, but the bottomline reality is that a string of romantic liaisons will ultimately strip you of the very essence of true passion and leave you with a deeper gulf of inner emptiness.
It is tragic when human beings compromise the passion that their soul hungers for with worthless imitations. And yet the very society in which we live, is embedded with quick fix solutions that only intensify the problem.
What is the ultimate solution? How can you protect yourself so that you can live the life you were created to live...A life of good passion, filled with dynamic synergy, and the opportunity to be transformed into the best possible version of you? The answer is so simple. By making the decision to activate a personal relationship with God, your deepest yearning will be fulfilled. It is vital that the connection is not superficial. The connection must be a passionate daily surrender to loving God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. Do this and in so doing you will learn how to love yourself and how to love others.
This process will allow you to engage the passion that was planted in your soul long ago.
Agape!
copyright (c) Kathi Dameron January 4, 2005
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