Everything flows from this verse in
Matthew, doesn’t it? This teaching from Jesus…
”Jesus said, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion,
and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any
list. But there is a second to set along-side it. ‘Love others as well as you
love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s law and the
Prophets hangs from them.”
Matthew 22:37-40 Message Version
It’s where our world hangs from ~ how
well, or how wrong things go, are already determined by the love that motivates
and is incorporated completely into anything we do. Without God’s Love, we
cannot do anything to the fullness of His intention and when we “love” our
activity or attention more that those around us, it is emptiness.
God’s work, His purposes for us, will always
ultimately lead us to others ~ Just as His “work” for Himself led Jesus to us.
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as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow
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Romans 15:13