"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:30,31 NIV)
So
many people concern themselves with the commandments given to Moses
upon the mountain that they forget how Jesus summarized them into
two--which should be easier to remember, but do we?
The
first--Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and
strength--If we truly love God--with all of our being and He is the
focus of our lives--we live to please Him--doing all He has put into our
hearts to do.
The second--Love your
neighbor as yourself--if we loved our neighbors (all those around
us)--as ourselves, could we hate, steal, lie, or kill anyone? When we
do these things--is it an indicator that we do not love self?
If
we really stopped to think about what we do and how we do it--we would
have greater insight as to who we really are and we might even see a
need to change. When we treat ourselves better, we'll treat others
better.
Love--such a simple command and
yet--such a hard one to do. If we love God, we would take care of the
needs of the poor and defenseless. If we love others--there would be no
poor and defenseless--God knows! Think about it!
And
while you're thinking about it--remember those who have loved us and
did not even know us in their service to their country to defend our
rights and freedoms as a nation, who for the most part--believes in God!
Learning to love is the greatest response we could ever give to God and others. Let's do it!
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