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July 23
Wednesday


WAVING THE
WHITE FLAG

READ:
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
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Hear, O Israel: The
LORD our God, the
LORD is one! You shall
love the LORD your
God. __Deut. 6:4-5
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Recently, while watching a video of a church service held in South America, I noticed something I had never seen before in church. As the pastor passionately called his flock to yield their lives to Jesus, one of the parishioners took a white hankie out of his pocket and started waving it in the air. Then another, and another,. With tears running down their cheeks, they were expressing full surrender to Christ.

But I wonder if there was more to the moment than the flags of surrender. I think they were waving flags of love to God. When God told His people to "love the LORD your God" (Deut. 6:5), it was in the context of His urging them to surrender their lives to Him.

From God's point of view, life with Him is far more than just trying to be good. It is always about relationship__relationship in which surrender is the way we express our grateful love to Him. Jesus, in amazing love for us, surrendered Himself on the cross to rescue us from our helpless bondage to sin and set us on a journey to all that is good and glorious.

We don't have enough words to tell God how much we love Him! So, let's show Him our love by surrendering our hearts and lives to follow Him. __Joe Stowell

````````````````````````````Lord, take my life and make it wholly Thine;````````````````````
```````````````````````````Fill my poor heart with Thy great love divine.````````````````````
``````````````````````````Take all my will, my passion, self, and pride;``````````````````````
`````````````````````````````I now surrender, Lord__in me abide. __Orr````````````````````
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Surrender is God's love language.

************************Today's Bible Reading __ Deuteronomy 6:1-9***************************
1 Now this is the
commandment, and these
are the statutes and
judgments which the LORD
your God has commanded
to teach you, that you may
observe them in the land
which you are crossing over
to possess, 2 that you may
fear the LORD your God, to
keep all His statutes and
His commandments which I
command you, you and
your son and your
grandson, all the days of
your life, and that your days
may be prolonged.

3 Therefore hear, O Israel,
and be careful to observe it,
that it may be well with
you, and that you may
multiply greatly as the
LORD God of your fathers
has promised you__" a land
flowing with milk and
honey."

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD
our God, the LORD is one!

5 You shall love the LORD
your God with all your
heart, with all your soul,
and with all your strength.

6 And these words which I
command you today shall
be in your heart. 7 You shall
teach them diligently to
your children, and shall talk
of them when you sit in
your house, when you walk
by the way, when you lie
down, and when you rise
up. 8 You shall bind them as
a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. 9 You
shall write them on the
doorposts of your house
and on your gates.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Deuteronomy 6:4 contains the Shema (or Shema Yisraell). This
affirmation of the oneness of God ("Hear, O Israel: The LORD our
God, the LORD is one!") is the centerpiece of the morning and
evening prayers of observant Jews. The title Shema comes from the
Hebrew term for the first word in the verse, hear.