Rev Bill

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27)

Jesus tells us to love God and love others. He seems to assume we will love ourselves — want the best for ourselves — and want to take care of ourselves. The trick is to want to love — take care of — and want the best for others, also.

Today’s Purpose Driven Life Devotional deals with this subject. Here’s part of what it says:

This shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. If you want people to listen to you, listen to them. If you want people to applaud you, applaud them. If you want to be recognized, recognize someone. If you want people to take you seriously, take them seriously. If you’re getting hungry, then you can assume that others around you are probably hungry too. How else did Jesus know to take care of feeding the crowd he had been speaking to all day except that he was hungry himself?You could go as far as to say that this is precisely why we have needs, so we can understand and deal with the needs of those around us.

Treat others as you would want to be treated. Pretty simple, and yet so hard.

You can read the entire devotional here
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