March 10, 2020

March 10

Running with Jesus

Luke 10: 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

     This section comes from a conversation with a man trying to trick Jesus and justify not loving some people but I want to pause here because I learned something about loving God from some of the phrases that helped me when I was in depression. I will go back to the context tomorrow. The man answered a question what the Bible said about how to enter heaven.

     Firsts he said you must love God with all your heart. The heart is the seat of our emotions. Emotions are response to life situations. Each thing we experience will bring up a feeling then we take action. The mind goes into processing how to respond to that emotion and our will takes action outwardly then we end up being controlled by that emotion.  I lived for years emotionally controlled by what I heard and then what I felt began to run my life. Then I began to grow in wisdom and knowledge of God I learned emotions could not be trusted! They will lie to you and you build preconceived ideas that build in your mind and will send you into depression, what ifs, doubts, despair and all sorts of emotions that Satan can use to destroy your Life. Here Luke says to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. We have to let Him transform our thinking!  Our total person has to be transformed! 

     I have shared before, we have been brought up playing pre-recorded tapes that others have taped for us and some we allowed to define who we are! We need to read the Word and erase the old tapes and play what God has to say about us and how we are to respond.  So stop running on old emotions and thinking patterns. Let's get a new energy to run your life on Spiritual Red Bull! 

Father help these runners know, feel and understand they have a new life and the old things are passed away and run on truths from Your Word. Help us all understand and learn we are defined by what You say not from where I come from or what's been said or done to us. We are a child of the King. Help us love You with all our heart, soul, strength, mind and let us learn to rest in You and Your love!

Tomorrow: Jesus helps the man see into His heart!

Judy Hollaway

Originally penned 2015