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5 August 2024
LOVE GOD
Peace of the Lord and have a good start to the week everyone.
For today's "Bread from Heaven", Monday 5 August 2024, the thought I felt like sharing with you has as its key verse:
Mark 12:30 (NIV)
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
This verse, often considered among the best known in all of Scripture, invites us to total immersion in God. Jesus, in the heart of his preaching, shows us the way to follow: to love God with our whole being.
• Heart: It is not just a feeling, but the intimate center of our person, our emotions, our passions. Loving God with all your heart means desiring Him above all things, trusting completely in His will, and finding our deepest joy in Him.
• Soul: The soul is our deepest part, the seat of our conscience and our will. Loving God with all your soul means living in communion with Him at every moment, conforming our will to His.
• Mind: The mind is the instrument with which we know and understand the world. Loving God with all your mind means trying to know Him better and better by studying His Word and meditating on it.
• Strength: Strength is our vital energy, the ability to act and carry out our projects. Loving God with all our strength means putting all our abilities and talents at his service.
Loving God with all our being is not an easy task, but it is a fascinating journey that leads us to discover ourselves and our vocation. It is an invitation to emerge from mediocrity and live a full and meaningful life.
Today we want to pray together and say: God the Father, we thank you for the priceless gift of your Son Jesus. Please help us to fix our eyes on Him, to meditate on his life and to imitate his example. Strengthen our faith, ignite in us the desire to follow you and give us the grace to persevere to the end. In the name of Jesus... Amen!
With love, Ivano Salerno
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