…and love your neighbour as yourself. God mandates you to “…[l]ove your neighbour” and adds two very important words to the end that command: “…as yourself” (Mark 12:31). Should your concern for your neighbour not be to the same degree as it is for yourself, that is unselfish? Do you not love yourself?
Tell me, how do you? How much love do you have for you and is there anything that you would not do for you?
God wants you to treat others as well as you treat yourself. Remembering how much value God places in every one He creates should help you value yourself and easily find value in others created by Him and in His image. He expects you love God’s way.
As a member of God’s prestigious family, you are called to seek the good of others and, more particularly, commanded to love others as Christ loves you (John 12:15), that is, sacrificially and unconditionally. In short, you are expected to imitate Christ’s all-encompassing love for it is by this that the world knows that you are God’s disciple (John 12: 34-35).
Pause and spend a few moments reflecting on how you treat those around you. When was the last time you went the extra mile? Do you truly love your neighbour as yourself?
