“Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing”

 

28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

Mark 12:28-30

9 The heart is deceitful above all things
 and beyond cure.
 Who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart
 and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
 according to what their deeds deserve.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10

Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.

Psalm 62:1

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Matthew 16:26

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Revelation 20:4

Romans 12:2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Psalm 29:11
11 The Lord gives strength to his people;
  the Lord blesses his people with peace.

Philippians 4:13
13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.