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What's the second greatest order? If you're a scholar of Scripture, a believer, it's potential that you just said something like "Adore your neighbor as yourself." If you did, you'd be appropriate - nearly.
Jesus himself said, "Adore the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is actually the first and greatest commandment. And this was Jesus' response to the inquiry, "Which is the best commandment in Regulations?" - referring, naturally, to the Law of Moses. People come to me, Pastor Chris, as head of Christ Embassy and have questions about the most important commandment. Until Jesus came, the 2nd greatest command as stated in the Old Testament (Leviticus 19) was fully satisfactory. The truth is, I think it was the best we could hope for in terms of loving another human being. This is The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12): Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. ![]() But throw into the mix the very fact that occasionally we do love ourselves. Sometimes we are able to actually struggle to like that which we are, what we do, and definitely who we are. How can we be anticipated to love others as we love ourselves if we do really know how to love ourselves? There are days when many of us fight simply to be fine to ourselves. So how can we love? Jesus gives the reply. In the gospel of John, Jesus said, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I've loved you, you also are to love one another." (John 13:34, ESV). The bar has been lifted by Jesus. Not that he has made it harder to love (quite the reverse: With this order he also promises to pour out the love of God into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, so enabling us to adore beyond human ability), but the thought of love itself has been raised! The relationships we have with others should really be broad avenues of gratitude and thanksgiving. Too often we get bogged down in the details of our interactions. We make matters keep and transactional a mental tally of who owes what to whom. When we do remember to say "thank you" to one another, we're practically constantly referring to favor or just one action. How frequently do we look beyond that? I'm reminded of a narrative in the Gospel of Luke where Jesus heals 10 lepers of their afflictions in contemplating this. Of the 10 who are treated, only one makes the attempt to say "thank you." But he'sn't simply saying thank you for the healing. He falls down and praises God as a result of what's occurred. It's clear that he understands who Jesus really is. This is even acknowledged by Jesus by declaring the man's religion has made him well, beyond the straightforward curing of the illness. By offering thanks and praise, the guy showed that he valued what had been done for him, but that he desired to be in relationship with God from that day forwards. As we gather with our families and friends for the forthcoming holidays and Thanksgiving, we're given the same chance as this man who read had been healed by Jesus. We have the chance showing gratitude to the men and women in our own lives, but we must go beyond simply thanking people for what they've done. If we want the people we care going to understand how important they are to us, then they must be told by us. We must thank them for simply being parents, our friends, children, siblings, relatives or whatever they may be. If we want those relationships to be as deep so that as purposeful as they ought to be, then they have to be cherished much above anything we appreciate or value. All of the good things in our lives flow in the relationships we have with other, and especially from that important relationship that we have with God. ![]() So, this year let's not only for what they've done thank folks. Let's thank them for who they're.
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