Love Your Neighbour

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He answered: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’” Luke 10:27

In the book “Prayer” by Richard J. Foster, he gives the following illustration: “A venerable, old sage once asked his disciples, ‘How can we know when the darkness is leaving and the dawn is coming?’ ‘When we can see a tree in the distance and know that it is an elm and not a juniper,’ ventured one student. ‘When we can see an animal and know that it is a fox and not a wolf,’ chimed in another. ‘No,’ said the old man, ‘those things will not help us.’ Puzzled, the students demanded, ‘How then can we know?’ The master teacher drew himself up to his full stature and replied quietly, ‘We know the darkness is leaving and the dawn is coming when we can see another person and know that this is our brother or our sister; otherwise, no matter what time it is, it is still dark.’”

We need to love our neighbours just as Jesus does.

Ask the Lord to give you eyes to see those in need and wisdom on how to help them.

“And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’” – Matthew 22:39