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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Deuteronomy 6:1-15
The love of God does not allow any sharing, any compromise. It is exclusive in the sense that it demands total commitment from us: heart, soul, strength and mind, our entire being should be seized by it. And no moment of our lives should escape its hold. In the home, during a meal, when we get up, when we go to bed, outside, in short every moment of every day we should make our precious Saviour the object of our thoughts and conversations (Psalms 73:25). How far away we are from this! However the Gospel presents us with the perfect example in whom all was for God. We hear Jesus quote that "first and great commandment" with the authority of the only One ever to carry it out perfectly: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind . . ." (Matthew 22:37-38). The Word of God was continually bound upon His heart, so that when the Enemy appeared in the wilderness, He had in His hands this trusty sword with which to answer him. Jesus quotes vv. 13 and 16 to shut Satan’s mouth twice. Hence the importance for us of knowing verses by heart. "That ye may learn them . . . " advocates Deuteronomy 5:1. The devil can do nothing against Scripture when we know how to quote it to defeat him.
