And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’
Just a quick introduction first, who is your neighbour? Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) to shows us who our neighbours are, and it is everyone including our enemies. The rest of this Blog will work on this fact.
Love my neighbour as myself! As a human being that is a very difficult thing for me to do. My nature is to love myself first, then to love my family, then to love my friends, then to treat strangers as suspicious and my enemies as hateful objects of my wrath. “What’s wrong with that?” I hear you say, and my heart would agree with you.
God sent Jesus to die for us. why! Because he wanted to have a loving relationship with us. What greater act of love could there be than to do for us.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:6-8
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1
Jesus loves us so much that, just at the right time, he died for us so that there was peace between God and us. What an example for us to follow. Loving our neighbours as ourselves will bring peace between our neighbours and us, which includes our enemies. So that means, no more wars, no more murders, no more crime. You might say that we would be living in heaven.
