Love

So an expert in the law approaches Jesus and asks...

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.

When confronted with a question of priority Jesus proclaimed love.
Above all things we must first love our God. Not just a lovey dovey, eye lash winking kind of love. But, a love the covers everything. A love that would give up all, and choose to follow. A love that seeks to become more like the loved one.

When we love God part of that love must be to strive to become more like Him. To display his attributes and characteristics. To be holy as he is holy (1 Peter 1:15)

It is out of this kind of love where the overflow of the second commandment comes from. When we start to love God by becoming more like him we instinctively come to love others.

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Jesus commanded to love God, and then love others. That is a huge challenge to me. We all find it easy to love some people (wives, husbands, sons, daughters) but find it hard to love others (those we don't get on with, people we don't want to associate with). But Jesus commands to, and we read that he did LOVE

Do we hang on love?

How might we love God better, and love others more?