"You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39
This is such a shocking command. The only way God knew how to even explain how we are to love others is by appealing to our natural tendency to love self, preserve self, justify self. We naturally only think about how to please self. That means that in order to obey this command, we must never think about how to please ourselves. Because the second we start thinking about gratifying self, we automatically fail to love our neighbor as ourself. Instead, in that moment we are placing our good over that of our neighbor's! Staggering! O what a Perfect Savior we need and what Perfect Savior we have! Not one that rescues us from the consequences so we can continue living in the pig pen of self love, but so that we can progressively become more like him in dying to ourselves!
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