“Jesus said to him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-38

Life’s Call

Walk His Way Revisited

Jesus lived out every breathing moment loving God and loving people. He healed them. He fed them. He delivered them from demons. He restored their sight. He taught them. He even raised them from the dead. The overarching passion of His life was to bring glory to His Father and declare the truth of a love that cleansed sin, conquered hell, and overcame death. God, the Father, was always foremost in His mind and in His heart. He was the living, breathing reality of the Jewish Shema. On these two commandments hung all the Law and the Prophets.

I grew up in a loving family. I always knew I was loved. Grandparents and aunties and uncles spoiled me with attention and affection. As a young woman I made choices to go my own way and do my own thing—because now I could. Sometimes I think this breaking away and testing the boundaries is a rite of passage. We need to find out for ourselves what is true, what works, and how far we can go. But my own way just led me to sorrow and heartbreak. It was then I remembered what my family had told me and shown me all my life—love.

Today I feel that these Scriptures are my life call and purpose. Everything else flows out of this foundational call to love. It looks like this:

1. Love God

2. Love people

3. Everything else

This may seem to be an oversimplification, but it worked for Jesus. He put the Father above all else and out of that divine love relationship a love for mankind was poured out. His radical love changes me from glory to glory. I will, as much as is in me, strive to love as He loves, to love as He has loved me. I will go and do likewise.

Father, no one loves like You! You so loved us that You gave us Jesus. He loved us in His humanity and He showed us the Father’s heart. We are well loved! Forever grateful, Amen.