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Love: our love for God: Deuteronomy 6:1-25
I cannot emphasise enough how our response to God - our love for God - does not earn his love, is not a 'debt-recovery/payment' scheme, nor is it a matter of 'being good because I am scared'.
Our response to God - our love for him - is our response to his grace. It is everywhere in this passage - in the land 'promised' (vs.3), in the land bountiful that they did not create (vs.10-11), in the continual repetition of God's covenantal name ('LORD' - 'Yahweh'), in the remembering that the LORD brought them out of slavery (by his magnificent deeds) to this land (vs.20-25).
Now, such grace does confront and judge sin (after all, the hard-heart of Pharaoh was shattered, and this mob have just wandered for 40 years, and Moses will not see the land). But it acts to deal with sin, for the benefit of the LORD AND the sinner.
So, as we love God, as we obey his commands, it is because of God's grace.
P.S. As we take a break as a family, this will be the last post until the week beginning July 18...
Some stuff worth reading...
This first article is a useful introduction to a bloke that many of us refer to, many of us name-drop, many of us derie, but very few of us actually read, know, or understand...
www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/calvin-institutes/
This second article helpfully pushes us to think through what our church is, as it shapes what we do...
www.crossway.org/articles/the-mission-of-your-church-will-shape-how-you-think/
This third article is helpful in thinking through evangelism...
au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-i-learned-from-thirty-five-years-of-running-evangelistic-c...
au.thegospelcoalition.org
We need to make sure that our churches and church members are prioritising activities that help non-believers to come into contact with the gospel message.