“4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.* 5
You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”
The above passage is from Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and it was regarded as a
directive from God through Moses regarding how God was to be respected and
honored.
We are beginning a new fiscal year in the life First Christian. We have elected
officers and leaders for the coming year or for their respective terms of leadership.
These include Moderator, Vice-Moderator, Secretary, Treasurer, Elders, and
Deacons.
The children of Israel were commanded to keep these commandments within
their hearts and spirits. Note that there is only one God. Therefore, we cannot turn
sports or other activities into a God. We cannot with a failure of commitment say to
ourselves, “I know I am to serve as an Elder or Deacon today, but someone else
will just fill in for me.” For each time we do that we have let the priority of God
being first slip away. Our commitment to our Lord tends to lag and the entire
church that our Lord brought into being tends to suffer as a result.
Let us seek to be faithful as God and His Church become our Number One
commitment.
