10/21/2023
Mark 12:30-31
King James Version
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
It's time that we start loving God as well as our neighbors. We say Oh how I love Jesus but don't dare let someone ask for help because that's when our love stops. Instead of loving those down on their luck or having a hard time we want to Judge them, talk about them and be little them. I'm sure All of us haven't always had the good life that we may know now. I know I've been up and I've been down. I have experienced living in my vehicle, an abandoned house in the middle of winter with no way to heat or to cook, no water or power absolutely nothing. I didn't get down because of drugs or alcohol but I got down from not managing my resources wisely and from turning my back on God. God did not do this to me but He allowed me to do it to myself. He taught me first and foremost that I had to LOVE Him with all my heart not just when it was convenient for me to love Him. He taught me to love others as well. Many days I would have gone hungry had it not been for someone bringing me a plate of food or something to drink. God tells us in this scripture to love others as ourselves, we'd better start loving others and stop judging others down in life because they have a tattoo or aren't clean shaven or their clothes aren't clean and new. We all come from different walks of life and we all have different opinions and different ways of doing things. That's fine to be different because we are to come out and be peculiar people BUT, that doesn't mean to Judge, Hate, Ridicule someone else. It means LOVE them as yourself. If you can't help someone you can at least give them a kind word of encouragement and most of all PRAY for them. In Jesus Name Amen