THE TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS: 30th Sunday OT A

POINTING TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD

Dear Friends in Christ,
Today, Jesus gives us the two great commandments:
Love of God and love of neighbour.
But what does love really look like in a Christian life?
A non-Christian named Aristides once wrote to the Emperor Hadrian about a new group of people called Christians. He said, “Christians love one another. They never fail to help widows; they save orphans from those who would hurt them. If one of them has something, he gives freely to those who have nothing. If they see a stranger, Christians take him home and are as happy as though he were a real brother. They don’t consider themselves brothers in the usual sense, but brothers through the Spirit, in God. And if they hear that one of them is in jail or persecuted for professing the name of their Redeemer, they give him all he needs. This is really a new kind of person. There is something Divine in them.”
Friends, we can’t be commanded to love just anything, but we can be commanded to love God and our neighbour. Let us pray that as Christ poured out his life as a sacrifice for us, that we too may pour out our lives for each other in loving service.