If you study the life, words, parables, sermons and actions of Jesus, you will find an eternity’s worth of things you should do.
But there was precisely just one thing which was so vital that Jesus actually went so far as to phrase it as a command, and that was to love each other.
We are to love one another, cherish one another, even lay down our lives for one another if need be, and it is all an extension of being a branch of Jesus, the true vine. Apparently Jesus knew that if we could do just this one commandment, everything else would follow.
If you bring a child to an ice cream parlor, you won’t need to start issuing rules which insist that the child order a cone, eat it, enjoy it, find it delicious, and so just generally have fun! Once the child gets to the parlor, the rest follows.
So also with love: to love each other. If we can’t do this, nothing else will work, either. If we can love each other……..the rest follows.
Thanks to Kamaji Ogino for the photo.
In YOUR life, when YOU love someone, what is “the rest that follows?”
THE WORLD SEES ONLY WHAT YOU DO. GOD SEES WHY YOU DO IT!!
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