Luke 10:27 (NLT) The man answered, “‘You must
love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all
your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’” “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and
you will live!”
Jesus promises life to those who love
God wholeheartedly and show that love to those around them. All that we do and
say and even think should be governed by the overriding love we have for God. Why
do we get this so wrong as believers and as churches? If only we really did
love God first and those around us did the same, a love with pure, unselfish,
humility, preferring to meet the needs of others than seek to meet our own. Loving
God is this way means a giving attitude to others, our desire would be for them
to blossom and flourish and we would be encouraging and challenging them rather
than manipulating and controlling. Rather than labeling and judging we would
assume the best of those we don’t know well. Loving God is about caring for his
honour, his name and his holiness, it is about resisting sin with all we have. We can all delude or deceive ourselves into
thinking we are OK but unless we live in real community with those we don’t get
on with we are less likely to be reminded of how truly selfish and unloving we
really are.
Father,
forgive our woeful lack of love for you, sorry Lord for mixed motives and a
judgmental attitude, help us to grow in love for you and hate sin.
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