“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV)
Is it not implied by this passage that everything we do should be motivated by this: Love the Lord your God with your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
This was a command from Moses to the Israelites. In fact he tells them to diligently teach them to their children and their children would diligently teach them to their children, and on and on. He also says that this command should be written on their hearts, bound on their hands, and on the frontlets of their eyes. Everything they did was an act of showing the love they had for the Lord their God.
Is there any limit to this command?
What are your thoughts?
Do we commit to this daily covenant everyday?