June 4, 2020
Thursday for di Nain Week for Ordinary Time
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“Make you love di Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength…Make you love your neighbour as you love yourself.” Mark 12:30-31b
E dey interesting to see how these two great commandments take go together!
First of all, di commandment to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength dey clear well. Di main thing wey go help us understand am na say this love must fill our whole life, without anything wey we hold back. We no fit hold any part of ourselves back from loving God. We must dedicate every part of who we be completely to di love of God.
Even though plenty things dey wey person fit talk about this love to help us understand am more and more deeply, e still dey important to see how di First and Second Commandments take connect. Together, these two commandments sum up di Ten Commandments wey Moses give. But e dey very important to understand how di two take connect.
Di Second Commandment talk say you must “love your neighbour as you love yourself.” So this one bring di question, “How I take love myself?” Di answer dey inside di First Commandment. First and foremost, we dey love ourselves by loving God with everything wey we get and everything wey we be. To love God na di best thing wey we fit do for ourselves, and na im be di main way to love ourselves.
So, di connection between di two commandments be say, to love our neighbour as we love ourselves mean say everything wey we do for other people suppose help dem love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. We dey do this one through wetin we talk, but especially through di way we dey influence dem.
When we love God with everything, our love for God go spread go meet other people. Other people go see our love for God, how our heart dey burn for Am, how we dey long for Am, our devotion and how we don give ourselves to Am. Dem go see am, and e go draw dem. E go draw dem because love for God truly get power to draw people. To see this kind love dey inspire other people and make dem want love di way we dey love.
So today, think deeply about how deep your love for God be. E dey equally important to think about how well you dey let that love for God shine for other people to see. Make you no hold back at all from living out and showing your love for God openly. When you do so, other people go see am, and you go dey love dem as you love yourself.
Lord, help me follow these commandments of love. Help me love You with every part of who I be. And as I dey love You like this, help me share that love with other people. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Image: Christ Wey Dey Give Comfort, by Carl Heinrich Bloch
