DAILY STRENGTH FOR MEN
January 31 (day 1)
OUR MIGHTY RESOURCES
Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our GOd, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NRSV
We, like the people of Israel, are called to love God with all our heart, soul and might. Our heart includes not just our emotions but our intellect too, so loving God with all our heart means loving God with all that we have "inside". The Hebrew word translated as "soul" is nephesh, which means "living being" or "life". So loving God with all our soul means loving God with everything we have.
Why does God command us to love him with all our might? Don't heart and soul already cover the bases?
Elsewhere in the Old Testament, the word here translated as the noun "might" is used as an adverb meaning "very" or "much". The Greek translation of this word as a noun is "power", and the Aramaic translation is "wealth". Both of these encompass our resources, or what we have at our disposal.
Our resources certainly include our wealth and our physical resources, such as our home and our possessions. We also have less tanigble resources such as gifts, talents, education, training, and experiences. The more we develop our resources, the more impact they can have when we use them to love and honor God.
Goliath was a giant who had killed many men in hand-to-hand combat. His coat of mail weighed 125 pounds, and the head of his spear weighed over fifteen pounds. When he challenged the army of Israel to send one man to face him, no one dared, except a young shepherd named David.
Goliath expected David to fight him with his sword and spear, but David employed other resources: a sling, a stone, and a wealth of experience in using both.
God has given us everything, including our resources. Let's use them to love and serve him in every way we can.
January 31 (day 1)
OUR MIGHTY RESOURCES
Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our GOd, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NRSV
We, like the people of Israel, are called to love God with all our heart, soul and might. Our heart includes not just our emotions but our intellect too, so loving God with all our heart means loving God with all that we have "inside". The Hebrew word translated as "soul" is nephesh, which means "living being" or "life". So loving God with all our soul means loving God with everything we have.
Why does God command us to love him with all our might? Don't heart and soul already cover the bases?
Elsewhere in the Old Testament, the word here translated as the noun "might" is used as an adverb meaning "very" or "much". The Greek translation of this word as a noun is "power", and the Aramaic translation is "wealth". Both of these encompass our resources, or what we have at our disposal.
Our resources certainly include our wealth and our physical resources, such as our home and our possessions. We also have less tanigble resources such as gifts, talents, education, training, and experiences. The more we develop our resources, the more impact they can have when we use them to love and honor God.
Goliath was a giant who had killed many men in hand-to-hand combat. His coat of mail weighed 125 pounds, and the head of his spear weighed over fifteen pounds. When he challenged the army of Israel to send one man to face him, no one dared, except a young shepherd named David.
Goliath expected David to fight him with his sword and spear, but David employed other resources: a sling, a stone, and a wealth of experience in using both.
God has given us everything, including our resources. Let's use them to love and serve him in every way we can.
DAILY STRENGTH FOR MEN
January 31 (day 1)
OUR MIGHTY RESOURCES
Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our GOd, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NRSV
We, like the people of Israel, are called to love God with all our heart, soul and might. Our heart includes not just our emotions but our intellect too, so loving God with all our heart means loving God with all that we have "inside". The Hebrew word translated as "soul" is nephesh, which means "living being" or "life". So loving God with all our soul means loving God with everything we have.
Why does God command us to love him with all our might? Don't heart and soul already cover the bases?
Elsewhere in the Old Testament, the word here translated as the noun "might" is used as an adverb meaning "very" or "much". The Greek translation of this word as a noun is "power", and the Aramaic translation is "wealth". Both of these encompass our resources, or what we have at our disposal.
Our resources certainly include our wealth and our physical resources, such as our home and our possessions. We also have less tanigble resources such as gifts, talents, education, training, and experiences. The more we develop our resources, the more impact they can have when we use them to love and honor God.
Goliath was a giant who had killed many men in hand-to-hand combat. His coat of mail weighed 125 pounds, and the head of his spear weighed over fifteen pounds. When he challenged the army of Israel to send one man to face him, no one dared, except a young shepherd named David.
Goliath expected David to fight him with his sword and spear, but David employed other resources: a sling, a stone, and a wealth of experience in using both.
God has given us everything, including our resources. Let's use them to love and serve him in every way we can.
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