LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF – SUNDAY CHOICE – by Charles Schokman
“For all of us who lived the Christian faith, we have definitely heard the phrase “Love Your Neighbour As Yourself.” But what does it really mean to love your neighbor as yourself? Do we truly understand the way Jesus Christ intended?
How to Love Your Neighbour as Yourself.
When Christ was asked what the greatest of all the commandments was, it was not asked in earnest by someone who sincerely wanted to know. Rather, it was asked by someone who considered himself to be an expert in the law of the prophets, who only wanted to test Jesus.
When this question “Who is my neighbour?” was put to Jesus by a Pharisee. Instead of giving a direct answer, Jesus Christ turned the question on the Pharisee by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan.—
https://www.samaritaninns.org/parable/
So with Christ’s answer of his great commandments of Love we can truly see His infinite Grace and wisdom, as well as God’s infinite mercy which is the key to our salvation. By loving our neighbour as ourselves, Christ has made it impossible for us to fail because we are very good at taking care of ourselves. We want what is best for us and by making our own selves as the benchmark of how we should love others, Christ has shown us how to truly love our neighbour.
Another important teaching in loving our neighbour as ourselves is that we realize that we should not wait for when we feel loved before we start to love others. We do not have to wait until we feel that we have a surplus of self-love before we give it away to our neighbours. The commandment made it perfectly clear: love your neighbour exactly as you love yourself. No more and no less.
Jesus first teaches us that the greatest of all commandments is to love God with our whole being because God is the foundation of love. It is only by loving God that we truly learn how to love. Right away Christ follows it up with loving your neighbour as yourself because once we put God at the center of our love, we learn how it is to genuinely do the same for our neighbours.”—Pearl Dy.
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