Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Monday


For a while now I have been trying to come up with something that I could post on my blog on the same day every week. I have several blogging buddies that have all sorts of fun versions that I really enjoy reading and look forward to each weekly {sometimes daily} installment. I figured that it should be something for which I have a passion and that brings me joy. My greatest passion is for my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The greatest joy that He gives me is allowing me to serve Him, by serving others in His name and for His glory. I remember a time, just a few years back, that I was really feeling called to serve others, but didn’t know how to go about it. So I am thinking that there are people out there {just like me} that want to help others and the only thing keeping them from it is just simply knowing when, where and how. So, out of this process I have decided to start “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Monday”.

Why “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Monday”? Well, I found my inspiration in the following two passages:

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." ~Mark 12:28-31 NIV

You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself.” ~Galatians 5:13-14 NIV

As I read the Scriptures above I can see that God calls us all to “love our neighbors as ourselves”. If you are not familiar with the Scripture passages you may familiar with a phrase from your childhood that states the same call…The Golden Rule: Treat Others The Way You Would Want To Be Treated.

I hope to use “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Monday” to share ways {both big & small} that we can serve our fellow Man. Ways to serve our local, national and global neighbors. Ways to help improve their daily lives. Ways to show them kindness and compassion. Ways that we can serve them in love and help to let them know that they are not alone and that God loves each of them. Service in love to our fellow man {our neighbors} may require us to give of things that we consider precious…Time, Treasure and Talent. You may be thinking, how can helping people I don’t even know and may never meet be serving the Lord, I have found the answer to that question for myself in the following passage from Matthew:

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' ~Matthew 25:35-40 NIV

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