Day 52
Yahweh...

Loving and Transforming


Yesterday we saw the responsibility of loving Yahweh... and we saw Jesus restating the same need that we love Him and obey His commandments.

Our Old Testament text.

Deuteronomy 7:9
"Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands."
(Holman Christian Standard Bible)

We discover in Matthew 11:28-30, the only place in the gospel accounts where Jesus actually describes Himself in His character... His personal inner being...

"Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
(Holman Christian Standard Bible)

Did you catch the unique "self-description" our Master gives us here?

He said He was/is... gentle and humble in heart... and Christ tells us to learn to be like Him... to be gentle and humble in heart.

This is a new command that joins the first one... to love our God and His Son with all our hearts.

There is no way that one can claim to love Yahweh... without learning to be gentle and humble in heart.

No way.

xtnyoda, shalomed