All He Asks is All Of Us

Mark 12:29-31 NIV

 

“29The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:29-31 NIV)

 

This morning I was praying about what the Lord would have me to write on next when I came across a set of little devotionals I purchased a few years ago, put out by “Lighthouse Christian Products Co” (2015). Mark 12:30 was the verse on the front of the card, and on the back of the card it says:

 

“It’s so easy to fence off a small place in our life and designate it only for God. Then, we reserve the rest of it for ourselves – our wants, our needs, our desires. But He wants everything – every room in our life. He wants us to love Him with our entire being. He gave everything for us – the very life of His Son – to bring us to Him. All He asks is all of us. As we give ourselves to Him, He’ll guide us and help us become more like Him” (LCPC 2015).

 

So well said! Yes, love for God is not just an emotional feeling we have for God. And it is not just making a decision to believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives. It is total surrender of our lives to the Lord to be His, to give everything we have to Him, nothing held back to be only for self. For by faith in Jesus Christ we deny self, die to sin daily (by the Spirit), and we follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands (see Luke 9:23-26).

 

As the Deer

 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

 

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

 

All He Asks is All Of Us

An Original Work / June 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Partial credit to “Lighthouse Christian Products Co” (2015)