Someone asked me about my "life verse" - the verse of scripture which is the theme or mission statement for my life. I monitored in my reaction a certain contempt for the idea (I gave Proverbs 31:6,7 as mine). But upon further reflection, it is true and obvious that everyone has scriptures that they emphasize (how else could there be so many breeds of christians all reading from the same book?).

So I was thinking of the scriptures that continually come up for me as themes, or as foundational to where I aim my life. Here's what I came up with:

Matthew 22: 34 - 39; Mark 12: 28 - 34

Luke 6: 20 - 49

Matthew 25: 31 - 46

1 Corinthians 3: 10 - 13

Romans 12: 9 - 21

Romans 2: 1 - 16

1 John 3: 11 - 24; 1 John 4: 7 - 21

2 Corinthians 10: 3 - 5

James 2

This was a really good exercise. I am feeling all kinda pumped up. There is more, but I think I will just read it over to myself. There's a lot of good stuff in there!