“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind.” —Luke 10:27
When Henrietta Mears wrote to college students of her day, I believe she grasped the heart of what Jesus referred to as the greatest commandment.
I would that we had young men driven along by a mighty vision of what God could do if only He possessed them. I believe young men of today are going to do things that will stagger this generation, but all this will pass. We must have young men to deal with things not of time, but of eternity. 1
Mears understood that we haven’t been put here on earth to be happy or fulfilled but to love and serve Jesus with all our heart, strength, mind, and soul. To be possessed by Him, to live our lives in the light of eternity, to be His willing bondservants—that is to fulfill the purpose for which we were created and to know the greatest possible joy in this life and the next.
1 Earl O. Roe, Dream Big: The Henrietta Mears Story (Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015), 148.
------------------
Singled Out for Him: Embracing the gift, the blessings, and the challenges of singleness
©2023 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Ask God to help you live in light of eternity—with how you spend your time, your abilities and your energy.