Let me share 4 secrets to total health…

If there were four things to get you automatically on the right track for healing and wholeness, would you do them? I assume most people would be willing to try these four steps. 

I wish I could say these are four easy steps, but they are actually quite difficult. Would you like to know what they are? Great! Here they are: “Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ”” (Matthew 22:37, NIV) 

Step one is love, a love that is unconditional and unrelenting. 

Step two is loving with all your heart. Real love requires a full investment of your passions.

Step three is loving with all your soul, the core of who you are. Your personality and emotions must be fully engaged.

Step four is loving with all your mind. In other words, the object of your love is fully in your thought life.

Is this how you love God? This question cuts to my heart because sometimes I don’t love Him that much. But if I can love Him like this, I’ll be healed and made whole.

Another thought comes to mind: I should love others like this. Can you imagine what would happen to friendships, marriages and families if we loved like this? Think about the family of Jacob, the son of Isaac and Rebekah. Jacob came from a dysfunctional home where lying and jealousy were the norm. His own children were trapped in the same unhealthy patterns, but at the end of his life, he changed. He changed the history of the Jewish people as well as the history of his own family and their traditions because he blessed everyone. He was driven by love. “By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.” (Hebrews 11:21, NIV)

You can be driven by selfishness, anger or greed, or you can choose to love with everything you’ve got.

Because you’re a miracle.