Day 18- Loving People
The second great commandment is to love others as ourselves.
Jesus said those two commandments, loving God and loving others summed up all of them.
Perhaps it’s a new phenomenon that many people don’t love themselves and I don’t think Jesus was giving people a loophole to get out of this commandment.
He was assuming that loving ourselves is given.
A few things to consider for today:
You should love yourself. Jesus loved you enough that He literally died for you. So stop hating yourself. We need to think more like Jesus don’t we.
Loving others (and yourself) is almost impossible when we don’t first love God. It is an overflow, just as loving God is an overflow of God’s love.
Loving God, yourself and others sums up literally all the commandments. So we can keep it simple (not easy) and trust the process that our loving Father has designed.
So today, as you pray and worship, exercise or whatever it is you are doing, why not reflect on God’s love for you and let an overflow of Love spill out from within you.