Love your neighbor

Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:31

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:18

Aren't you glad it is not said, thou shalt love thy neighbor with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. No, that would have been carrying the point too high, and scarce have left any sufficient note of distinction between what we owe to man, and what we owe to God only.

But we are called to love our neighbor nevertheless. There is no excuse for not to love. Neighbor here would mean anyone outside of your near and dear ones. In general it all boils down to how you treat others. Do you always put yourself first or think the best for others? Do you walk around with a 'don't care' attitude or always ready and willing to serve?

How is your heart's condition? Do you feel relieved 'the bad' did not happen to you or can empathize for the victim to whom 'the bad' actually happened?

Do you go about spreading rumors about others all the while not realizing how you would feel if you were in their shoes?

Yesterday we saw that if we do not love the Lord, we are not true believers. Today's coffee takes us a step further to insist that even if we say we love the Lord but hate our neighbor, we are all liars.

Let us therefore work on a renewed mind that seeks the best for our neighbors rather than being so focused on ourselves. God bless you!

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 1 John 4:20