Mark 12:30 (NLT) 30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’
There are lots of things we can love.
Our spouse, fiance, career, children, church, ministry, etc. And all of these are good things that we should love.
But sometimes our love for something can become a weakness if we don’t keep our priorities straight.
Sometimes we can love things that aren’t so good. Maybe things like alcohol, lust, drugs, anger, etc. And loving these kinds of things can destroy us, physically, emotionally and spiritually if we don’t see them for what they are and eliminate them.
Anything that we love, if it comes before our love for God, can rise up and hurt us at some point in our lives.
Yes, even our love for our spouse, our children, our work or our “ministry” can hurt us.
If we love alcohol, it can and will destroy us. If we love lust, it can and will destroy us. If we love any kind of sin, it will ultimately rise up and destroy us if we don’t surrender it to God and let Him deliver us from it.
But even our love for our spouse or our children can damage us badly, or even destroy us, if we don’t put it in its proper place in our lives.
We always need to love God first. He needs to take precedence over absolutely everything else in our lives. He needs to come first. Everything and everybody else needs to come after God.
When we put anything else before God, we are always setting ourselves up to be hurt or to fail. Because when something is higher on our list of priorities than God is, that thing will ultimately hurt us in one way or another.
It is so very important that we keep our priorities in order and keep God where He belongs, at the top of that list!
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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Glory be to GOD! Thank you Pastor it helps a lot to me 😊…. Have a wonderful day!
You’re very welcome. You have a wonderful day also 🙂