Rebecca Bratten Weiss said: “Old farmers sometimes taste a little soil to ascertain the pH level, and I’m aspiring to be an old farmer someday, so I touch my tongue to the soil in my hand. Is it sweet or sour? Hard to tell: I’m too wary to go beyond a tentative lick. Eating dirt is not considered civilised behaviour, and we are trained from an early age to shun the dirt, to set up sharp dividing lines between ourselves…
1. “For each will have to bear his own load. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” 2 “Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you. And he made from one man every nation…
Yes, the love without boundaries is to love both your friends and enemies! The Jews of the Old were specialists in loving their neighbour, but they hated their enemies. Jesus picks up Leviticus 19 to explain God’s concept of love without boundaries. Our Lord Jesus expands it beyond what any rabbi did in His day. It is not just patriotism to the people of Israel; it is not just care and loyalty to the people outside of Israel who comes…
Fred Epstein said: “The question, “Why do children suffer?” has no answer, unless it’s simply, “To break our hearts.” Once our hearts get broken, they never fully heal. They always ache. But perhaps a broken heart is a more loving instrument. Perhaps only after our hearts have cracked wide open, have finally and totally unclenched, can we truly know love without boundaries.”
1.”The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.” 2 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with…
Etymologically, the word neighbour means someone who dwells near. Scripturally, your neighbour is someone you must love because of the love of Jesus for you and another. I draw mainly on the meaning of neighbour susceptible to nearness understanding via prayers! Lord Almighty, thank you for the opportunity to love one another. Allowing us to love our neighbours for a season or a lifetime is a gift we do not deserve. We can only love because you have first loved…
Wendell Berry said: “In 1569, in Holland, a Mennonite name Dirk Willems, under threat of capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a “thief-catcher .” As they ran across a frozen body of water, the thief-catcher broke through the ice. Without help, he would have drowned… What Dirk Willems did was turn back, put out his hands to his pursuer, and save his life. The thief-catcher, who then of course wanted to let his rescuer go,…
1. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love…
Have you not heard that the love of others is hard? To obey Jesus Christ, you must love others!!! Yes, there are enemies you must overcome for love to thrive in your life! (1) Fear will prevent you from seizing opportunities. Therefore to love, crush your fear. (2) Ignorance will prevent you from making good decisions. Therefore, seek God’s wisdom in making everyday decisions! (3) Anger will prevent you from seeing clearly. Rid yourself of anger, for you need divine…
Garrett Soucy said: “How do we love those who do not love us? Firstly, we love them by believing the truth that God loves us and that we desperately need his love – not only to sustain us but also to spend on others. Secondly, we love those who do not love us by disbelieving that we are in any way capable of this task apart from the love of Christ. The only way I can ever possibly obey Jesus…