YouTube Video Devo
“Love God, Love People”
Matthew 22:37-39 NIV
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
This past Saturday night, I took my wife on a concert date to go see Danny Gokey, Jordan Feliz and Blanca. They were all very talented and gifted singers. I had never seen Blanca or Jordan Feliz in concert before and it was a blessing to hear their music live. This is the second time my wife and I have seen Danny Gokey in concert and he was a favorite of ours back when he was on American Idol.
One of the songs Danny sings is “Love God, Love People”. I’ve heard this song many times, but it was a great reminder hearing it once again and got me thinking about our lives and our mission as followers of Christ. As Danny’s song states, we are called to love God and love people. I think back many years ago a devotional I read from him and he stated, “So many times I think we overthink our calling and over complicate the Gospel, when really our purpose in this life comes down to two simple things; loving God and loving people.”
I want to ask us all a very simple question. Do we make it our daily life mission to love God and love people? This should solely be our life call each and every day. No matter where we are and no matter what we are doing, we are commanded by God to love Him and to love people.
Friends, there is nothing about this requiring a Seminary degree. It’s a very simple concept, but it can be very tough to live out some days when life doesn’t make sense and people are treating us terrible. However, we must remember Jesus was very mistreated, but He kept loving people because it was His mission and call of life.
I really like the chorus of Danny’s song which says, “Gotta keep it real simple, keep it real simple. Bring everything right back to ground zero.”
I hope that we can all take a step back, look at life and see how we can make it our daily life mission to love God and love people.
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