The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Loving God with your all and loving people with your all! What does that look like? As I grow closer to Christ it looks diffrent than it did a few years ago. It is easy to say I am a follower of Christ, but it's another thing to love God with all you got! We will never do this perfect but to go after this goal is what I need to be doing. God has given us the Bible which is how He talks to us many times through the Holy Spirit. I have noticed when I read His word and spend time in prayer my love for Him grows. When my love for Him grows my love for people grows. I can easily play church and forgot about loving others. Playing church for me is just going through the motions. Go to church, read the bible for about five minutes becuses I have to. Our faith is so much more than that. The Bible tells us that we need to read His word because we are so in love with God that we want to be more like Him. So if I am loving God with my all I will then love people like I should.
This has been my verse this year:
Luke 18:9-14New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
What a great scripture! I am know better than anyone else. I need to come to Christ with a broken heart! Then He can use me to reach and love other people.
Keep walking......
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