I love God. Yesterday I had to write an emergency meditation for our church's book for Lent. Guess what. it was on the latter part of this passage. Here it is.
Jesus said “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
your neighbour as yourself.” (My
paraphrase of Matthew 22:37-39). Being a New testament is the relevant
testament person I was shocked and horrified when I discovered these same words
in the Old Testament in Leviticus 19:18. Now I find the first of those
commandments in Deuteronomy too. “Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
strength.”
For some years therefore I have been just as excited by the
Old testament as by the New. No longer do I see it as irrelevant to my life. It was Old testament Scriptures that Jesus spoke about on the road to Emmaus. Why did I ignore them for so many years?
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