"What commandment is the foremost of all?"
Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
[Mark 12:28-31]
"For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
[Galatians 5:13-14]
What exactly does it look like to love yourself as God would have you? In other words, what love are we reflecting when we love our neighbors?
[perhaps i should save this question in case i ever fill in on YoQ again, hm...or perhaps it's already been asked]
2 comments:
I'm thinking that loving others as yourself is having concern for their well-being, spiritual and otherwise.
ee cummings: "she laughed his joy she cried his grief"
I think correct self-love is less about selfishness and more . . . perspective? So loving others means compassion.
I read and reread those questions several times and I'm still not sure I understand.
It seems like service and love for others means dying to ourselves, loving ourselves less so that we're less self-focused and then able to concentrate on others. It's just so easy to love ourselves. How do we make it just as easy, as natural to love other? Loving our neighbors sets the balance aright. I think. But maybe I didn't understand the question.
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