"You
shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might"
(Deut, 6:5)
Loving the Lord. This
is what we were created for and the purpose of our redemption. We can see from this scripture in
Deuteronomy, which is repeated in the Gospels by Yeshua as the greatest
commandment that in order to fulfill our destiny and this command, we need to
love with “all” of our heart, soul and strength.
The Hebrew word for “all” is “Kol”. It contains the letters “caph” and “lamed”.
The pictograph is a picture of the
bent palm representing the bending or subduing of the will, the is a picture
of a shepherd staff or yoke. Combined these mean "tame for the yoke".
An animal or land that is tamed has been worked and is complete and ready for
use. Taming include; construction of holding pens, putting the soil to the
plow, harvesting of crops, milk or meat. One eats once the harvest is complete.
(eng: whole; cell; cellar)
From this we see that this is a process goal. It is something we continually develop, this
giving our “all”.
Now, let’s look at where we need to focus. Three areas are to be bent to the Lord. They are: Heart, Soul, and Strength. These are the areas of Spirit, Soul, and
Body. So, when the Lord is asking for
“all”, He means “all”. This is important
in our compartmentalized world. Very few
people have any kind of love plan developmentally.
Rather we live our lives, being instructed to act “lovingly”
without any real training in the “all” of our heart, soul and body. Much of this hole is because of the loss of
covenant teaching to the Body. We don’t
really know what it means to live in covenant.
It is time to rediscover this in our lives today. We need training in living out of a whole
heart, a whole soul, and a whole body.
There is a hierarchy in this and it flows spirit-soul-body. This is NOT to imply that spirit is more
important than soul or than body. This
is a thought embedded in the fragmented culture that we live in. Rather it is the principle that the greater
contains the lesser. A healthy body
without a healthy soul is of little value.
On the opposite end a healthy spirit without a healthy body is also
short-lived. Rather we need a whole
heart, which then allows for a whole soul, which includes a whole and healthy
body.
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