36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'b]">[b] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'c]">[c]
Because if we love people more than we love God, worries and fears will overwhelm us. To love God first means that despite how much we care for others, we should not attempt to carry their burden. Their burden is for God to carry and hence we shouldn't try to step into God's role. By placing ourselves under worries and anxiety is not in God's will. We need to draw a clear distinction between loving God and loving people. To recognise this is to hold fast onto what belongs to God, ie the fruits of the Holy Spirit and reject all other things not from Him.
There is nothing wrong with loving people. But it is wrong to love people more than to love God.
Only when we are able to clearly differentiate between the 2 choices, then we are in His liberty/freedom to choose.
Our role is simply to bring forth truth or light.
If you allow your vessel to be filled with darkness, how can you bring light?
| Mt 6:22 | The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. |
| Mt 6:23 | But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! |
eye means in Greek Word: Ojfqalmovß
Transliterated Word: ophthalmos
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