Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome to day two this week of the Daily Blade, where we are

unpacking what the Shama is and how we can evaluate our life in it. Again, the shemah is this,

hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord of your God with all

your heart, soul, mind, and strength. All right, so let's start with heart. Are you loving God with all of your heart? And the way that you evaluate this is what do

your relationships look like? And if you ask me, how in the world do you go from heart and relationships?

It's because in Luke 252, the one verse about Jesus says he is living out the shema in his life, he grew in favor with man.

So one of the ways that we love God with our one and only life is in our relationships.

In fact, 1 Corinthians 1614, hopefully you know this by now.

You know, 1 Corinthians 1613 is the verse that says we're supposed to stand firm and act like men.

And then 14 matters right on the heels of what it means to be a man.

It says, let all that you do be done in love.

So the greatest commandment can be summed up this way.

Love God and love people.

So, evaluate your relationships.

How's it going?

Does it need improvement? Specifically, men,

are you loving your wife like Christ loved the church? I mean, be honest. Are you looking on how you can serve her or are you primarily looking to be served? I mean, the Bible says that we are to love her like Christ loved the church,

and the way Jesus loved us is he initiated love. He pursued us. Even when it wasn't his fault,

that doesn't matter. He takes responsibility for everything in the relationship. Later, Peter,

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