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To: Alamo-Girl; HarleyD
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. - Matt 22

This is the meaning of life, the purpose for our existence:

AMEN! How can anyone go wrong by believing that fact and living that fact?

And frankly, it's a lot easier to say we believe Matthew 22 than to really truly live it. Sometimes it takes a lot of years to realize just how difficult that proposition is, how much we are pulled in other directions, how little we actually acknowledge His hand in our lives.

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." -- Ephesians 1:17-23

"far above...every name that is named..."

964 posted on 10/30/2007 10:13:25 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
And frankly, it's a lot easier to say we believe Matthew 22 than to really truly live it. Sometimes it takes a lot of years to realize just how difficult that proposition is, how much we are pulled in other directions, how little we actually acknowledge His hand in our lives.

Precisely so, dear sister in Christ!

Every day it seems I discover something that was too important to me. And oh, how grateful I am to God for pointing them out - one by one, as I can bear to face it.

Amazing grace.

Praise God!!!

966 posted on 10/30/2007 10:37:46 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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