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bigmike

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NLT) 13 That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.
This verse is a perfect summary of what our relationship with God should be; loving God enough to reverently fear Him and obey Him—doing what He says is right.
While most of us tend to complicate our walk with God, the foundation of it all comes down to the statement made in the verse above.
Yes, each of us is unique. And our relationship with Him will be unique because of that. But the foundation it is built on should be what the Word of God tells us, and that never changes.
So, knowing this, how do we go about it?
It really isn’t complicated.
Jesus said it perfectly when confronted by the Pharisees. They asked Him, “what is the most important commandment?”.
He readily answered with this: You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.
And that is it, spoken very succinctly by Jesus Himself, God with us.
So what will we do with our lives? What is important to us? What really matters to us in our day-to-day priorities?
Those are pretty sobering questions if we ponder them seriously.
Only we can answer that. Only we can make the choices that govern our lives.
And in the end, let us be found guilty of only one thing: running the race in a way that we may obtain the prize, finding our joy not in who we are, but in the One we pursue.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (NKJV) 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
Amen 🙏🏻

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