{"id":14389,"date":"2013-09-02T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:27:10","slug":"all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/02\/all\/","title":{"rendered":"All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

This word is so small, yet its meaning is so vast.\u00a0 I cannot remember ever being told the meaning of or looking up the definition of all<\/em>, but I know what it means.\u00a0 In fact, if you were to ask me what the meaning of all<\/em> is, I would answer with a hand gesture.\u00a0 (And I bet you can picture that gesture in your head , right now!)<\/p>\n

All.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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I will praise the Lord at all<\/b> <\/em>times. I will constantly speak his praises.
\nPsalm 34:1<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When I read the word “all<\/em>” in this verse it seems out of place.\u00a0 The psalmist aspires to praise the Lord at “all<\/em>” times. The words “sometimes” or “often” seem more plausible to me. After all<\/em> we are talking about all<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This verse, with its use of the word “all<\/em>“, is quite overwhelming and, when I first read it, I thought, “I can’t ALL<\/strong><\/em>ways praise the Lord, I have a lot to do.\u00a0 I can’t write about this verse.”<\/p>\n

Six other verses in this psalm contain the word “all<\/em>“\u2014 verses 2, 4, 6, 7 and, 9\u2014and five of these six verses refer to God doing something.<\/p>\n

Then it hit me.<\/p>\n

My God is an ALL<\/em> <\/strong>God.\u00a0 He’s not a “this and that” type of God.\u00a0 God wants an all<\/em> relationship with me.\u00a0 Jesus said the greatest commandment is, “…Love the Lord your God with all<\/em> your heart and with all<\/em> your soul and with all<\/em> your mind” (Matthew 22:37).<\/p>\n

Being the great example He is, God shows us what\u00a0all<\/em> means in a relationship.<\/p>\n

For God so loved the word that he gave his one and only [all<\/em>] son…
\nJohn 3:16a<\/p>\n

With a sacrifice like this, I understand how Jesus can say, “In the same way any of you who does not give up everything [all<\/em>] he has cannot follow me” (Luke 14:33).<\/p>\n

And apparently, obeying this command is possible…the first disciples did it! \u00a0In Luke 5:11 and 28, the verses read, “…left everything [all<\/em>] and followed him.”<\/p>\n

All<\/em>.\u00a0 He wants it all<\/em>.<\/h3>\n

The story about the rich young ruler can be found in Luke 18:18-30.\u00a0 This is a fairly well-known story. \u00a0Jesus tells the man to sell everything [all<\/em>] and follow Him, but the young man does not.\u00a0 At the end of the story Jesus says,<\/p>\n

I tell you the truth, no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children [insert: all<\/em>] for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.
\nLuke 18:29 and 30<\/p>\n

We will be rewarded.\u00a0 All<\/em>.<\/p>\n

God has given us His all<\/em>; in turn, He wants our all<\/em>.\u00a0 Does He have your all<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/p>\n

Thank you, Father, that the vastness of “all” is not too much for the Holy Spirit to handle. Help us to not be overwhelmed and instead trust You in all we do and aspire to do.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All. This word is so small, yet its meaning is so vast.\u00a0 I cannot remember ever being told the meaning of or looking up the definition of all, but I know what it means.\u00a0 In fact, if you were to ask me what the meaning of all is, I would answer with a hand gesture.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3146,3517,3521,3523,3522,1287,3453,566,1607,3520,3518,3519,1817,3515,3516,3174],"class_list":["post-14389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-all","tag-all-your-heart","tag-all-your-mind","tag-all-your-soul","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour-daily-devotional","tag-john-316","tag-luke-1433","tag-luke-1818-30","tag-luke-511","tag-luke-528","tag-matthew-2237","tag-psalm-34","tag-psalm-341","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-all","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14392,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions\/14392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}