LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF

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For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Rom 13:9-10 KJV

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF.
Praise the Lord! For the Scripture being passed from generation to generation, one hand to another, one translation to the other, yet has retained its integrity and potency - ability to change and save lives! Even if sometimes it is wrongly interpreted, twisted, tilted, distorted to personal ends or gain and badly applied for living, God keeps still, the wholesomeness of the Scripture over the ages. Alleluia

The best way to telling quickly what God is saying is to repeat His word by substitution: Love your neighbour "in place of" yourself. Some have thought the way to loving one's neighbour is self-love, firstly to love oneself because of the conjunction "as" which seem to them a comparison. But no, it's rather a replacement, a whole substitution on the hierarchical love.

Though God commanded that we love our neighbour, He didn't say such about parents. As for them, the Scripture says, "Honour your parents that you may live long in the land the Lord is giving you." Loving the parents instead honouring them is an aberration of the truth and no matter how it gets twisted, it won't bring about the righteousness of God. In fact, this distortion should be carefully avoided. Do as the Word says, honour them!

In real sense, after love for God, it's your neighbour! Thereafter, yourself. Funnily, God may have thought parents as neighbors?! Now listen, just before you begin to lavish love on your humble self, God says remember your parents! Remember to honouring them. Value and think much about them. Love them than yourself. So plainly, love appeals to us like this: God > Neighbour > Parents > Yourself.

Love isn't about giving but primarily of intentions, the condition of heart toward others. 1 Corin 13:1-3, tell that giving could be unprofitable because it's been given without love. Love is more than giving things. O yes, giving can be that bogus! But the first and last things about love is seeking good of others, their peaceful resolution and causing people no harm. This, God says, has more worth than the giving.

The summary and the fulfilment of the law is love and working no ill to one's neighbour. It means, nothing is really bad or sinful if it's "self-free" and done to help everybody. In contemporary language we'd say, "everything goes", in so much as the deed is not for any personal aggrandizement, even if the Law is against it. You may be accused for instance, maybe for working on a Sabbath as against the Law, but if the intent is generated from the Lord of Sabbath, you'll in the end be justified - eternally free!

Now my friend, permit me browse through your heart asking: How is your love life? Do you do giving without love? Excuse me, you're only a clinging cymbal. Do you offer great sacrifice without God's consent or leading? Know you're simply nothing, gaining nothing! God is love and to love is an act of God. No one can really love - thinking good of others, except God who's LOVE has helped him. So, I ask again this way, have you been helped by God? Do you know personally this God that loves, loving with everything? If everything done in love stands justifiable, then anything done without love is totally condemnable and a sin, the law notwithstanding.

Verse of the Day Feb 21, 2022

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