The Holy Spirit's first agenda is to establish the first commandment in first place in the church. Jesus referred to Deuteronomy 6:5 and then defined loving God as the first commandment. Matthew 22: 37-38 "Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment."
God is love - wholehearted love. The very being of God is wholehearted love. Wholehearted love is first in God's personality and it is first in the relationships of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Father wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be. We were created in His image for wholehearted love. It is the core reality of our relationship with God and the essence of salvation.
John 15:9
"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in my love."
The body of Christ has set the great commandment aside. My prayer today is the flame of the love Father, Son, and Holy Spirit has for one another and for us to burn within all believers hearts. To full fill the second commandment to love others as ourselves the first great commandment must be in place in the hearts of the Bride.
Amen
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