{"id":1101,"date":"2018-07-10T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:28:40","slug":"devotion-1-samuel-1522-what-god-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Devotion 1 Samuel 15:22 What God Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Samuel 15:22<\/b>\u00a0\u201c<\/i>But Samuel replied: \u201cDoes the\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Lord<\/i><\/span>\u00a0delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Lord<\/i><\/span>? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 22:37-40\u00a0<\/b>\u201cJesus replied:\u00a0\u201c\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u201938\u00a0This is the first and greatest commandment.\u00a039\u00a0And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019\u00a040\u00a0All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Matthew 11:28-30<\/b>\u00a0\u201cCome to me,\u00a0all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.\u00a029\u00a0Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,\u00a0for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a030\u00a0For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

What does God desire that we do?\u00a0 He wants us to love Him first and foremost with no competitors.\u00a0 He wants us to love Him with all that we are and He wants us to love each other. That\u2019s it.\u00a0 As the two greatest commandments that Jesus gave us encompass all the Law, that is what He wants for us.\u00a0 If we love God then we will obey Him.\u00a0 We do our best to do all that pleases Him and our goal is to never do anything that does not please Him.\u00a0 If we love Him with the divine love that He gives us we will put Him first at all times.<\/p>\n

If want to get rid of sin, then love God ever more.\u00a0 As we keep our eyes on Him (which is what we do when we love someone) and always desire to be ever with and ever closer to Him, then the ugly scabs of our life begin to fall away. \u00a0\u00a0We set aside self to serve and please Him.\u00a0 That is what people who love God do.\u00a0 And God has loved us so much that He said He will do the work of making our lives what they ought to be.\u00a0 So God calls us to Him, and sanctifies us, all because He loves us.\u00a0 Our job is to let His love flow through us and so we will be cleansed and become more like Him.\u00a0 Sound too simple?\u00a0 Of course it sounds too simple!\u00a0 Yet it is true.\u00a0 Love God and let Him do the work.\u00a0 He calls us, saves us and changes us.\u00a0 We love and submit to Him.\u00a0 If we love Him and know Him, we will trust Him.\u00a0 As we continue to love Him and walk with Him then we know Him better and better and so we trust Him more and more.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s drop our burdens and worries and let Him take care of all these things.\u00a0 Family, God made serving loving Him, and serving Him, simple.\u00a0 He calls us to perfect sinlessness, yet knows that we will never attain sinlessness in our life.\u00a0 He just wants us to desire that goal while seeking to please Him.\u00a0 Jesus already paid the price for all our mistakes.\u00a0 We are free.\u00a0 Since we are free, let\u2019s deeply breathe in the breath of freedom.\u00a0 Eternal freedom. \u00a0Stop and breathe it in.\u00a0 God made it easy for us.\u00a0 He did so because He loves us.\u00a0 Love God back with all that we are and we will be okay.\u00a0 He has promised that.\u00a0 The more we walk that way the easier it gets.\u00a0 Love the One who has loved us before the beginning of time.\u00a0 Love God.\u00a0 Love each other.\u00a0 Take care of each other.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Samuel 15:22\u00a0\u201cBut Samuel replied: \u201cDoes the\u00a0Lord\u00a0delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the\u00a0Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. Matthew 22:37-40\u00a0\u201cJesus replied:\u00a0\u201c\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u201938\u00a0This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[101,94,17,2187],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-samuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}