EXTENT OF LOVE
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Luke 10:25-37
“The man answered, "'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.' And, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"” (V. 27) NLT
It is important to know that love is the seed that brings the harvest of love. So do you want to be loved? then begin to love. Sometimes our situations want to limit the extent of our love to the people around us. But the extent of our love is not to be determined by our situation or circumstance.
The parable we read in the bible today discloses to us the extent of our love. One, to God, secondly, to our neighbour. The bible teaches us to love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind. This interprets loving God with all that is in us. Loving Him with all our being, with all our doing, with all at our disposal and with all our reasoning. Our love for God, therefore, can never be sufficient. Love Him with all of you.
The Bible also encourages us to love our neighbour as ourselves. In the parable, we see a true demonstration of love by the Samaritan, and He said we should do likewise. Even though we have close people, distant people and strangers around us, in every situation God expects us to put ourselves in their situation and love them. That is doing to them what we want others to do to us.
If only we could treat others the way we love to be treated, then we would have given our best in love. As much as wickedness and corruption are growing, the Bible teaches us to love.
Prayer: Lord, help me to love indeed.
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