Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39
Along my journey, I have been blessed with some wonderful
neighbors in all of the various places I have lived. Many of those neighbors have also become
lifelong friends that I absolutely treasure.
It’s made it particularly hard to move to another part of town or
different city/state. The same holds
true here in Knoxville and one of the most appealing parts of the neighborhood
for our family are the people who make up our community.
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 and it just 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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