Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength… In one of the wars in which the Emperor Napoleon was engaged, we read that one of his old soldiers, a veteran, sustained a very bad wound; and the surgeon came to dress it and probe it. He was feeling it with his probe, when the man said to the surgeon, "Sir, go deep enough; if you go quite deep, you will find at the bottom of my wound 'emperor!'" It was all for the love of the emperor. "You will find the word 'emperor' at the bottom of my wound." I wish I could think in all our wounds, on everything we do, we could find quite at the bottom of it, "I have got this wound for love of the Emperor. The love of my Emperor has given me this wound." O that we might find at the bottom of everything, "God!" God!" (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. |
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