Loving Others
In today’s world, self-love is widely promoted through advertisements and media. And rightly so - it's important to love oneself. After all, if you don’t love yourself, how can you truly love others? But we must also remember that God’s command is to love others as we love ourselves. The Lord Jesus Christ said that the greatest commandment is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." And the second is like it: "love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:36–40). Love for God fuels and shapes our love for others - and the reverse can also be true. But who is my neighbor? And since the command is to love them, does that mean I am also my siblings’ keeper? In the Bible, the term neighbor carries a broader, more inclusive meaning. It doesn’t just refer to the people living near us. Rather, it includes everyone we encounter in this world we share - even the grumpy man at the supermarket or the chatty la...
