Showing posts with label Neighbor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neighbor. Show all posts

Monday, January 07, 2008

Love Your Neighbor...

Jesus said......'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Luke 10:27

What does loving my neighbor as myself look like? I believe it has to do with how I treat others, not necessarily how I feel about others. When I interact with someone, do I treat them as I would treat myself under the same circumstances?

The last six of the ten commandments give us a good starting point from which to begin in determining what a life dedicated to the above would look like.
-Honor your father and mother.
-Do not murder.
-Do not commit adultery.
-Do not steal.
-Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
-Do not covet what is your neighbors.

Jesus expands on these in the sermon on the mount in Mattew chapter 5 and following. Some excerpts:
-He compares anger at one's brother to murder (5:21,22).
-He compares lustful imagination to adultery (5:27, 28).
-He tells us not to resist an evil person (turn the other cheek 5:39).
-He tells us to give to those who ask (5:42).
-He tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us(5:44).

Not always easy.