Joshua 22:5 Love

 5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

“We should not miss the order here. First, we should take care to hear God. Then we give Him our love. Next comes a walk of obedience. To mix this order up is to drift into heresy (loving without hearing) or legalism (obeying before loving).” (Guzik)

Love 💕 

Mark 12: 29Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

This commandment is hard especially for a man because our sin nature wants to fight when we’ve been wronged! And then our heart wants to become bitter towards the person that wronged us.

So if Jesus tells us to love 💕 our neighbor as yourself, how do we overcome the bitterness in our heart?

It seems no matter where we move to, we have one or two neighbors that are in everybody’s business and telling us what we can and cannot do with our property. One such neighbor was a bully and went off in a huff. As a Christian, we are given a commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. 🤔

So we simply pray for them and pray for ourselves every time we feel the bitterness in our heart for them. The Lord will do the rest!

Have you ever held a grudge towards someone?

Blessings