Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Jesus said it so it must be true.
But I am not Israel. Then he says in the very next verse to Israel.
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.’
That is a roundabout way of saying “You must love Me O Israel!”
So many times we read the scriptures and take the meaning to be personal, as we should, but in doing so forget who He is talking to and why. Context gets lost when we do that. This interpretation would be meaningless without context. We know God’s Anointed is Jesus Christ, we know He is God incarnate, we know that He and the Father are One, We know He is the Lord but the title “Lord our God” has a different context for Israel than it does for those of us who have given our lives to Jesus Christ.
What “The Lord our God” did for Israel is only symbolic to us Gentiles, for them it was a matter of what the Lord their God did for them as a chosen people. It shows us what God is capable of doing, but what He has done for each of us is different and personal, just as it was different and personal for the nation of Israel.
Jesus came and did signs and wonders for individuals, not a nation. It was lost on the Pharisees and Sadducees because they saw themselves as representatives of a nation and not individuals. There is a greater lesson in those words and I will leave that for each of us to sort out for ourselves. These devotionals are for individuals, not a nation.
We have been talking about lists and how they vary depending on the needs of the hearer. Without making a list, search out your own heart and seek that which is most important to you as an individual in what the Lord Your God has done for you. Then thank Him and Praise Him.
There is no wrong answer if it comes from the heart.