In today's verse 15, we're going to explore the longing we all share to be wholehearted.

Every one of us desires to give our lives to something, our passion to something that truly matters.

And God has given us all that desire with a perfect plan to satisfy it in a unique way,

a way he's perfectly wired each of us for.

May each of us get a greater sense of how we can live more wholeheartedly in him today. Welcome to the First 15

podcast. Our verse for today, our verse for today comes from Mark chapter 12, verse 30.

Scripture says,

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.

Wholehearted devotion, love, and purpose captivate us. As a culture, we cling to stories like Romeo and Juliet, Gone with the Wind, Don Quixote,

the Count of Monte Cristo, and Les Mies for the wholehearted actions of the characters. These stories

evoke within each of us, a desire to be equally wholehearted in our own lives.

We long to give ourselves completely to something or someone that our lives might have true purpose.

Humanity is captivated by wholeheartedness

because we were created for it.

God created us with a longing to be wholehearted

that he might satisfy that longing with his plans.

The Bible is the ultimate story of wholeheartedness.

It's the story of God coming down to us and giving himself completely for us to the point of death.

Defeating death, he now desires to use us as wholehearted children

to lead the whole world to salvation and freedom

that our lives would impact eternity.

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