Comments on: Today’s Devotional: The Enormity of What Jesus Wants for Us /blog/index.php/2010/08/04/todays-devotional-the-enormity-of-what-jesus-wants-for-us/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Mark /blog/index.php/2010/08/04/todays-devotional-the-enormity-of-what-jesus-wants-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-63648 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:13:39 +0000 /blog/?p=5314#comment-63648 Like Nicodemus, I believe in Jesus and often struggle to understand. I know I am in the wrong and I believe Jesus is is the way the truth and the life. Sometimes I get a little understanding only to realize later that I still don’t understand very much. Like the disciples, I often don’t get it but what else is there to do but keep seeking.

]]> By: Sean Scott /blog/index.php/2010/08/04/todays-devotional-the-enormity-of-what-jesus-wants-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-52130 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:22:20 +0000 /blog/?p=5314#comment-52130 The Bible can be a very confusing and daunting book to read, especially for the unbeliever or those who seek to pervert the Word for unholy use. Many an atheist reads through the Gospels and picks apart verses and passages that seem contradictory, or they take them out of context so they seem to say something other than their true meaning.

I always strive to remember what I feel is the most important of Jesus’ teachings, in Matthew 22:37-40 — “‘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.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

The Ten Commandments and the Bible itself is boiled down to those few words from Jesus. The stage is set and the lessons are played out in the pages of the Bible, but as long as I keep in mind that as long as I love God — demonstrated by my belief in Him and by keeping to His instruction — and love my neighbors — by treating everyone Christ-like, the way I would want them to treat me — then I am doing what God commands. Knowing this as I read the Bible it then has a deeper meaning.

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