Love Him, You, and Them

"Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it : 'Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22 : 37-38

In these verses that I shared above, I'd like to discuss about the bolded phrase, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.

Sometimes, we are so focused with the part which tells us to love our neighbor, but we neglect the part that tells us about how we shall love them,

Yes, we shall love them like we love ourselves. Now the question is "Do you love you?"

People would automatically say, "Of course I love myself!"

Do you look down on yourself?

Do you ever wonder why you are you?

Are you wishing you are living someone else's life?

Have you had any desire to be more or less this or that?

If there's any whisper of a "yes" in your deepest heart to any one or more of these questions, then you are not loving yourself. If you love others these ways then you will only set expectations over them.

You might reach out your hands to them, but in your thoughts you spare some rooms for those people to be more of how you want them to be.

"Oh! They're just small kids."

"Why are they so nagging?"

"Can they be a bit more like others?"

"How I wish they're easier to be calmed down..."

LOVE is GOD.

God never expects us to be someone else to be loved by Him.

If you want to love people, love God first, love what God has created, you, then you can learn to love others.