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ОглавлениеDUTY TO OURSELVES, LOVE TO GOD, RELIGION IN OUR HEARTS.
Fourth verse of the Shema’:
And these words which I command thee this day,
shall be upon thy heart.
1. The words which are to be upon our hearts are the words: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
2. It means that a real love for God must rule our hearts.
3. Merely saying that we love Him is not enough.
4. Our conduct, what we do, and what we say, and what we think, must prove it.
5. If we really love God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our might, we will then do all that our religion commands us. For we will then never do anything to displease Him. We will surely do everything to please Him.
*6. Real love for God can only exist in a pure heart. For an impure heart will have in it love for self or love for gain. Love for God will then be lessened or altogether destroyed.
7. Wrong thoughts make an impure heart.
8. Even if we cannot help wrong thoughts coming to us, we can, and must, prevent them remaining in our hearts.
9. We must not allow ourselves to indulge in wicked thoughts.
10. For wicked thoughts drive love for God out of our hearts.
BIBLE QUOTATIONS.
2. The Lord looketh on the heart.—I. Sam. xvi, 7.
3. My heart, my whole being, crieth out for the living God.—Psalm lxxxiv, 2.
4. The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.—Deut. xiii, 3.
Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for, therein do I delight.—Psalm cxix, 35.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight.—Psalm xix, 14.
5. I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved.—Psalm cxix, 47.
6. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.—Psalm li, 10.
8. (The Lord hateth) the heart that thinketh wicked thoughts.—Prov. vi, 18.
9. The thought of folly is sin.—Prov. xxiv, 9.
