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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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My name is Marcus Mack, I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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If you had to choose just one rule of life that governed every other aspect of your life
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what would it be? For a Christian, the first and the greatest commandment is this
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to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
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In other words, we are to love God with our whole being, with total devotion and delight
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We are to have no other rival competing for our affections, while prioritizing him above all else
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God is to be what we delight in, to be the one we love the most
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and out of a passion for God comes obedience to his other laws
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When a child loves and delights in their benevolent parent, they will delight to do their will
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not out of fear, not out of duty but out of love and delight for them
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this is the secret to true obedience because we are controlled by what we love the most
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we are driven by what we are most passionate about when we love God the most
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everything else falls into place when we have made something else the ultimate object of our lives
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everything becomes out of sync and we lose harmony and peace Christianity is first and foremost about love
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loving the one whom we were made to love
