Daily Fountain Devotional For September 24, 2023
Read Daily Fountain Devotional For September 24, 2023, Sunday Daily Reading Devotional for The Anglican Communion
TOPIC: The Greatest Commandment
TEXT: Matthew 22:34-40(NKJV)
22:34. But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
22:35. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked [Him a question,] testing Him, and saying,
22:36. “Teacher, which [is] the great commandment in the law?”
22:37. Jesus said to him, ” ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
22:38. “This is [the] first and great commandment.
22:39. “And [the] second [is] like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
22:40. “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Daily Fountain Devotional For September 24, 2023 Study:
One would wonder how the entire laws of God and all that the prophets spoke about will be so simply summarised by Jesus Christ our Lord and Master in: “Love the Lord… with all… and your neighbour as yourself. Serving GOD without your ‘ALL’ is worthless and loving your neighbour less of yourself is no love at all. When our hearts, souls, and mind are given to GOD, everything will fall into place; so also when we learn to treat our neighbour as much as we would want to be treated, hardly would there be strife.
Our inability to give GOD ‘ALL’ is reflected in our attitudes to the work of GOD. GOD’s work should be done decently, passionately and in uprightness. Anyone who has given GOD ‘All’ has nothing more to keep back. He becomes a vessel that is fit for the Master’s use unto every good work. On the other hand, when we love our neighbours indeed, we can be said to have fulfilled the Lord’s command. Ultimately, to love GOD is to have Jesus in our hearts and to love our neighbours as ourselves is to let the Jesus inside us be seen in our outward action. Love God and love your neighbour as yourself, and you have fulfilled all ofGod’s command.
PRAYER: May we be taught to be like you, O Christ and help us to fulfil your demands. Amen!
QUOTE: If you help the poor, your light will shine like the dawn. Isaiah 58:7-8
Daily Fountain Devotional for September 24, 2023. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.
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