HE Is Your Life

November 20

Many of us relegate to people the love and adoration that we should reserve only for God. Deuteronomy 30:20 says, “Love the Lord your God. Listen to His voice and hold fast to Him, for the Lord is your life.” When we transfer to a mere mortal the devotion only the Lord deserves, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment and distress.

If any human voice conflicts with the commands of the Holy One, we must reject its siren song. If anyone or any thing demands to be embraced to our bosom, we must remind ourselves that only those people and things that first embrace Christ should have any place near our heart, the throne room of our lives where He dwells.

Our God makes an assertion in this verse that only He is entitled to make—“…HE is your life.” We may wrap our lives around another, we may think we can’t live apart from a person or a goal or a dream, but we delude ourselves if we believe that any entity but the Sovereign Lord Himself is crucial to our existence.

It is imperative that we make Jesus Christ not only the focus but the entirety of our lives. When we do, we will not only comply with the law of God, which the Word tells us is the essence of loving Him (I John 5:3) but we will secure to ourselves the blessings of time and the treasures of eternity that He promises will come with obedience.