“You Shall Love

The Lord Your God

 With All Your Heart…”

 

 

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 heart, 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.’

 

Matthew 22:34-39

 

We may feel a tension between living a holy, “separate” life and the great commandment to love our neighbor as much as ourselves. But these two concepts do not really conflict. A central part of a life of obedience to God is to show concern and love for the lost.

 

Since we did nothing to deserve salvation, we have nothing to boast of. By God’s grace we are saved by faith. It is a gift from God, and it is meant to be shared with others!

 

The best witness for Christ shows God’s grace

 and shares His love.

 

Our Daily BreadJanuary 14, 2007