Love?

The two greatest commandments: 1. LOVE God. 2. LOVE people.

 ³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”-Matthew 22:36-40

The two greatest commandments have one common word. LOVE. 

Well, what does that mean, to love? What is love? 

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 


-1 Corinthians 13:4-7

In his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan challenges our character with a this famous passage in the bible. 

Go back and read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 again. This time, read it like this. Every time that the passage says the word Love, replace it with your name. 

Example: Brian is patient, Brian is kind. Brian Does not envy, Brian does not boast..... 

Gaaaaaa, when I read it like that I just feel like a liar. Don't you? When the bible tells us to LOVE people, It doest say "be nice." Its a call to love, just as we have been loved. 

"we love because he first loved us." -1 John 4:19

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