Todays Turning Point Monday, January 5 Exception to the Rule The first of all the commandments is: “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” Mark 12:29-30 Recommended Reading Romans 12:1-8 Carl J. Printz, Norway’s Consul to Canada during World War II, lived a long life and left a deep legacy. When he was ninety-nine years old, Printz was interviewed on television. The journalist asked, “Give us the rule you have followed during your long and useful life, the rule which has most influenced your life and molded your character.” Printz replied, “I would mention one definite rule—one must be temperate in all things.” But he paused and added, “Perhaps I should say temperate in all things except one—fulfilling the commandment to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and your neighbor as yourself. These are the only things we can rightly do with excess.” He’s right. The Bible tells us to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to the Lord and to serve Him with passionate zeal. We can’t love God too much, but we can love Him better. Rather than being conformed to the world, let’s be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Let’s be temperate in all things this year—except in loving God with all that’s within us. To love the Lord my God with all my strength will involve a physical cost. I must give Him my body to indwell and through which to speak. Missionary Helen Roseveare in Living Sacrifice Read-Thru-the-Bible Genesis 18-20
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