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- Name: Suzi
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Mark 12:28-34
The Greatest Commandment
Finally, there seems to be a teacher of the law asking Jesus a sincere question without a motive to trap him behind it. "What is the greatest commandment?" he asks. Jesus' response is "'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[5] 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'[6] 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[7] There is no commandment greater than these." (NIV)
If we focus on loving the Lord before all else, and loving our neighbors as ourselves, what a difference we could make in the world! I love how the whole commandments can be summed up in these two statements--love God, love your fellow human beings.
Sometimes it is difficult to love those we disagree with, or who can't see our point of view. It's hard to set aside emotions to put into practice the action of love. But this is what God calls us to do, and when we seek him first--with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, he will enable us to love those who seem unlovable.
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