In just forty words, Jesus told us exactly how to live:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.”
Day in and day out, I strive to live this commandment. Day in and day out, I fail. But I get up and try again the next day.
Interestingly, Jesus instructs us to love our neighbor as
ourselves, but doesn’t say how we should love ourselves. He makes a great assumption that we already
love ourselves. Our inability to love
ourselves may be one of the biggest problems in the world today. Until we learn to love ourselves as God wants
us to, our ability to love others will be limited.
God wants me to be very clear that I am as important was anyone
else. Any thought that I have that I don’t
matter, that others are more important than me, that my thoughts and feelings
are not valid, or that people will not like me unless I please them…these
thoughts are not from God!
I am a child of God who was made perfectly in His image. Any doubt of my worthiness is in direct
relation to my lack of faith. God loves
me just as he created me. And I should
love that creation fully.
Jesus, begin a revolution of love in my heart today. Teach me to love myself as you love me, so
that I can love all those who cross my path in a way that reminds them that you
changed the world!
Amen
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