‘And He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind…”’ Luke 10:27

What is the greatest commandment? To love God with all that we are.

Too often we find ourselves tossed like children on the waves of doctrine, human cunning, craftiness and deceitful schemes (Eph 4:14). We are quick to exchange truth for a lie, worshiping creature rather than Creator (Rom 1:25).

And because this is the natural proclivity of the human heart, we arrive on Sunday morning acutely aware of the distance between the greatest commandment and our personal reality. We arrive with the whispers of flesh and culture telling us to leave our divided affections at the door: ‘just pretend,’ they say. But denying our divided hearts only causes further division.

So what do we do with these divided hearts and lives?

We offer them as an act of worship (Rom 12:1). We offer our whole heart, whole soul, whole strength, whole mind, the good and bad, divisions and fragmentation – we offer them all on the altar of worship. And we join the psalmist in saying ‘…unite my heart to fear Your name.’ (Ps 86:11)