Falling in love with Jesus has been the most transformative endeavor of my life: more than learning to read or write or setting foot in another country or even getting married. Loving Jesus has sent me on a journey of healing and wholeness and love for others that could not have happened by any other means.
Tag: Greatest Commandment
“Now some of the teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves…” (Mark 2:6 NIV) The Pharisees spent all their time in Jesus’ presence in dissection and accusation. Jesus’ ministry looked so wildly different than their own, they could wrap their minds around…
It’s interesting to me how easily we recognize projection in Bible stories, movie scenes and even in the lives of others, yet it is so challenging to identify projection in the pages of our own story.
A working understanding of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission enables us to hold the door open for the unbeliever.
Suddenly, I see people-pleasing as the idolatrous transgression it truly is. Valuing the opinion of man over the opinion of God or obedience to Him – well, this puts us in a precarious place. Just as we may cheat on the Almighty through materialism or appetite, we equally betray our Beloved by letting the applause or dismay of others have undue influence. We allow ordinary people to rule our affections (heart), motives (soul), thoughts (mind) and actions (strength). When we seek to please mere people, we dethrone the one true King.