June 30: Weekly Reading- Teaching on the Greatest Commandment; The Compassionate & Insight Post by Kim Feld

  -   June 30, 2025

Love God with All Your Heart: Jesus teaches that the greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This command reminds us that our relationship with God must be the foundation of our lives, and that wholehearted devotion to Him is our primary calling.

Monday Verse

And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:5 (NLT)

Monday Questions

How can I deepen my love for God in every area of my life; heart, soul, and mind? What steps can I take to make Him the center of my daily decisions and actions?

Monday Insight Post
by Kim Feld

This week’s reading centers on the encounter between Jesus and a scholar of the Mosaic law. He asks Jesus what the greatest commandment is. Jesus responds with two principles that can be summed up as loving God and loving people. They sound so simple, yet they can be tough to fully live out.

We are to love God with all that we are: heart, soul, mind, and strength. Loving God is to be our center, our stabilizer from which everything else flows. Out of this whole love of God, we can love people well. Loving God and loving people is our highest calling, impacting every area of our lives.

To love God with all I am, He must be at the center of my thoughts, decisions, and actions. Even when things don’t work out the way I had hoped or planned. Even when He doesn’t give me the deepest desire of my heart.

To love people well, I must treat everyone who comes my way as someone Jesus loves and gave His life for. Even the person on the road who cuts me off. Even the person who angers, disappoints, or hurts me.

Simple but so important. Jesus says, “the entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:40 (NLT) Everything hinges on our love of God and our love of people. They go together, forming the foundation of our faith and our relationships. We can’t adequately do one without the other, especially between believers. This interconnectedness unites us and reminds us that we are part of a larger community.

Let’s take a look at how connected John, one of Jesus’ disciples, says these two are:

²⁰ If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 1 John 4:20 (NLT)

What do we need to do to make Jesus the center of our decisions and actions? How can we be intentional in loving others and showing kindness and compassion? These are crucial soul-searching questions to ask ourselves. If you’re like me, specific thoughts immediately come to mind. If we ask the Holy Spirit to search us and reveal what we need to see, He will be faithful to do it. Then, it’s up to us to act.

Kim Feld
Executive Director of Education and Outreach

New Hope Church
Lorton, Virginia
www.newhope.org