You guessed it, I get to teach today. Love Thy Neighbor as thyself. It is the second greatest commandment. How it is not an easy one to obey. Consider a friend of mine names Momo Kingsley who lives in Nigeria. Do you love him? Do I? How can you love a perfect stranger? Is it possible? One would say that it is easier to love a stranger than someone you know, for you know that one's failures, their choice to be evil, or good, to bless other's lives or curse them, etc.
Can you love Josh Powell? How about Kobe Bryant? Or even our politicians? Can you love your neighbors without knowing them very well? Perhaps it is not as easy to love our neighbor as one would think.
We could get into loving oneself, but we won't for that would take a long time to figure out how we can love ourselves. At least for some of us...
We must remember that this commandment comes after we are commanded to love our God, and then love others. Is that required? First to love our Father, and THEN love others?
Can we love those who propose, endorse, and promote evil things? Christ said that He loved the individual, but does not love the actions of that individual. Can we do that?
When one High Priest said that when he sees someone he judges their condition and realizes that they are there because of their decisions. It is their fault, so why love them?
We can love the Lord though all things. However, it is hard to love those that despitefully use us, yet we have been commanded to do so. Love our neighbor. Even those we do not know. Can we love those we have never met? Should we? Do we always realize that everyone on earth is our brother and sister, everyone. We don't have to condone their actions. We have no right to judge them nor their actions, someone else, like our Savior will do that. But we should love everyone as fellow children of God.
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