This is What It’s All About
Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbour the same as you love yourself.’
The faster the pace of life gets, and the more crowded our waking hours become with the thousand details that we deal with each day, the more unthinking, the more transactional, the more dehumanised our actions tend to become.
What’s something that you do on autopilot day after day? Perhaps it’s making the kids’ lunches and getting them off to school. Or driving the same route to work each day in the same wretched traffic. Or answering the barrage of emails that never seem to stop piling into your inbox.
As you stand back and consider those repetitive routine tasks objectively, how much do you think about the people around you – the kids, the other drivers, those who sent you the emails? It’s all too easy, isn’t it, just to crank out those widgets without considering others and, if you’re a person of faith, without considering God?
When asked by some young legal beagle what the most important thing in life actually is, Jesus answered …
Matthew 22:37-39 ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbour the same as you love yourself.’
It’s like Jesus saying … don’t complicate things. Let’s get back to basics here … to what really matters. So – wakeup call – when you’re cramming all that stuff into your day, just pause briefly to think about what it means to put God at the centre of it all.
And then, out of that love … hey, don’t snap at the kids, don’t honk your horn at the other drivers, don’t forget to add a word of encouragement to that email.
Love God. Love others.
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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