Love Your Neighbor

Love Your Neighbor “The entire law is summed up in a single command: Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14 In order to be a witness for Jesus we must learn how to love other people. The entire Bible is about Love and God’s love for us. He loved us enough to give his son for us, and to save us from our sins. The most important thing he wants us to do is learn to love others. As we set our daily goals and objectives we should always have this as one of our top priorities, our primary objective, and our greatest ambition. We must not let our schedules, our own personal agendas, our preoccupation with ourselves interfere with our relationships with other people. I have mentioned my grandfather many times in my writings, who left a legacy of loving his neighbors and spent much of his life thinking about people around him. He left a legacy of love, which I believe each of us needs to be striving for. We need to continually be evaluating ourselves to see how we are doing in this regard. Are we going out of our way to help other people, or are we shunning any opportunity to interact with people? Are we taking the time to listen, to find out about our friends and neighbors and to let them know we are there for them? A relationship with someone must be demonstrated by the time we spend with them. We must show them we care for them, not by just telling them, but must be demonstrated to them by our actions toward them. We must invest our time and talents in them to show them we care about them. If we are true Christians we must obey this command of God to love our neighbors as ourselves, as this is one of the main premises of his word. If you are not obeying this command, you need to seriously consider changing your behavior, as this is not the behavior and attitude you need to please God. Robert W. Brock My Daily Devotional Volume Six December 1