“You Shall Love
Your Neighbor
As Yourself”
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test
him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your hear, and
with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first
commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 22:34-40
Somehow the command to love does not always get through to us.
We may confess that we lack a strong faith, but seldom do we admit that we are
deficient in love. After all, we seemingly are sensitive to other people. But
deep inside we know that genuine caring reaches beyond feelings to action.
Because we can’t do everything, we often don’t do anything. If
you want to be a loving person, don’t start by taking on the needs of the whole
world. Start with caring about one person and build from there. You can’t do
everything, but you can do something. What you can do, you should do. Today,
determine that in power and grace of God you will do it.
In a world that could not care less,
we are to be the people who couldn’t care more.
Our Daily Bread –