Jesus was once asked what was the greatest commandment. He said, "You must love the Lord, your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and...your neighbor as yourself." This brief teaching carries with it six ideas about loving. Jesus gives his friends a PERSONAL command about love when he says,"YOU must'. Jesus gives a SPIRITUAL command- 'love the Lord'. Next, an EMOTIONAL or passionate command about love, 'love with ALL your heart'. And then, we are to love with the HIDDEN PARTS of our being, this is loving others with all our soul. We are also challenged by Jesus with a MENTAL command, we are to love others with all our mind. And finally, we love with all our STRENGTH. To love with all our strength is to love even when it is MOST DIFFICULT to love. Jesus then 'tags on'--" love your neighbor as yourself". Why the 'tag'?' Jesus knows if we cannot do the first six, the part of loving ourselves is near impossible. Or could it be, loving ourselves is THE KEY, that opens the floodgates of love?
In any case, today, choose to love, extravagantly!!
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