“I will love you, O Lord, my strength.”
—Psalm 18:1
We are told to “love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our strength”.
While this is super simple, it is extremely difficult.
We are weak. Extremely weak.
Yet that weak love, that is exactly what the Lord is asking for. With all the strength you have. He knows it’s infinitesimal. He wants it anyway.
“I will love You, O Lord, my strength!”
We know we are weak, but in the Lord is everlasting strength.
He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
So we pray daily that we may we be “strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man” (not through our own effort but through His Spirit), “so that we may be able to comprehend the width, and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge”.
For in knowing His love, we will grow in our love for Him.
“We love Him because He first loved us”.
(Mark 12:30; Psalm 6:2; Isaiah 26:4; Isaiah 40:29; Ephesians 3:16-19; 1 John 4:19)
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