Love thy Neighbour



Journal entry - 28 May 2017

Love thy Neighbour

Serving the Lord is a joy! And a storehouse of good works is wonderful …
But what does our Lord reminds us first and foremost to do ? 
OBEY the greatest commandment of all to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
Followed by the second command … to love our neighbor as we do ourselves.

It is easy to love those who are loveable but can we love those who are unloveable. The neighbour who is a handful, the friend who betrayed and stabbed one in the back, the family member who hurt us and continues to hurt us … 
These are the very ones we are called to love.

A disciple of Jesus does not hate man, but Forgives multiple times. And yet he is on the offence, WARRING in the spirit against the demonic strongholds and principalities at play.

This however, does not mean now staying in close proximity & ties with each person (who is difficult to love). 

Many times distance is very likely needed ... but above all, love remains as a bond. 

There will be those times that we find ourselves in the physical presence of a difficult people. In those moments, we are called to demonstrate the grace of God. 

I was recently surprised by the turn of events when I found myself amidst this very challenge. And experience, that I had so greatly resisted, turned out to be an enjoyable time. You see I had disciplined myself to keep the mind of Christ. I reminded myself to forgive and view each person with love.

As we love the ones who have hurt us, and continue to intercede through prayer for their freedom … a precious gift is acquired. 

We gain the tender heart of God.

And that my friend ... is priceless.

Love,
Ahava Sarah



Mark 12:28/34
The Greatest Commandment
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.
33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

1 John Chapter 4
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.



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