Love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:39)
I sure have been blessed with wonderful neighbors in the places I have lived. Many of those neighbors also have become lifelong friends in whom I treasure. It's always made it hard when life happens and I have had to move to another part of town or different city/state. We have really been blessed with with some special neighbors here in Knoxville and absolutely love our neighbors!
Jesus said that loving your neighbor as yourself is the second greatest commandment, after loving God with all of your heart. That must make neighborly love pretty important, right?
We all have a natural and fleshly instinct to look after ourselves first, but it's when we look to meet the needs of others like it's ourselves that we begin to fulfill Jesus' commandment.
This world is in desperate need of love. This can't be overstated enough. Love directed inward is useless, but love directed outward can help change this world one person at a time!
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