I love chocolate cake. I love the Philadelphia Eagles. And yes, I love my 7-yr. old, self-absorbed and thoroughly pathetic, 6 lb. Teacup Chihuahua, Jabez. I love ’em all. But do I love them to the same degree? Of course not. Of these three, chocolate cake runs away with the top prize. And why? Because it never loses or whines. 🙂
Jesus said the greatest commandment of them all is to, “Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength.” Now this doesn’t mean that we don’t love other persons or things; it simply means we love them less and God more, to adore Him before anything and everything else.
But here’s my quandary: “How do we know when we’re loving God more and everything else less? What are the telltale signs that He sits atop the leader board of our love?”
Last week we began a new sermon series on the “Parables of Jesus”, those “ordinary stories about ordinary people doing ordinary things in order teach a particular extraordinary spiritual Truth.” Why not come this Sunday morning to learn more about how we can recognize if God is truly the chocolate cake of our hearts as we probe “The Parable of the two debtors?”