Love

In the Gospel of Matthew 22:37-40  Jesus said: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

What does it mean to Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind?  How do you love your neighbor as your self?  These are commandments that we must contemplate everyday as we live our lives.  Are we loving God today with everything we have?  Are we loving our neighbor as God commands?  I believe this includes all the people we come across each day.  Our neighbors aren’t only our friends.  We all have neighbors that we naturally love and those that are difficult to get along with as well as those that we just ignore simply because we don’t cross paths often.

So what does it look like to LOVE someone or something?  You spend time with them, you talk about them to others, you miss them when they are not around among other things.

Several years ago I found a wrap restaurant named Roly Poly.  I loved it and it was not very busy.  For very selfish reasons I wanted it to be successful.  I wanted to visit every week and get my wrap fix.  The owners were wonderful and the food was amazing.  I looked for ways to get the word out about the restaurant.  I invited friends and family for lunch there, I looked for opportunities to get them to cater lunches, I talked about them to people I interacted with during the day.  I prayed for them.

To remind you we are talking about a wrap restaurant!!!  Do I do these things for God?  Do I look for opportunities to share Him with others? Do I share His word everywhere I go to make sure people know about His greatness?  Do I invite others to share in His glorious kingdom?  If I would go out of my way for a sandwich shop like that how much more should I be excited to share God with others?

Unfortunately my days are not always spent loving God or others.  Sometimes I get so intent on checking things off my list or asking God to help me with my life that I neglect to love Him well.  Faithbooking reminds me of His love for me and documents His working in my life so I can share His love with others.  It also helps increase my faith as I see Him clearly working in my life and in the lives of those around me. I believe we love our neighbors best by showing them His love and pointing them to Him by our actions and words.