October 31, 2021
Sọnde Nọmba 31 for Ordinary Time, Year B
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“Di second one na this: Make you love your neighbour as you love yourself. No other commandment dey wey big pass these ones.” Mark 12:31
Di first Commandment, wey big pass all, na to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. But Jesus still give us di second Commandment wey important pass di others. “Love your neighbour as you love yourself.”
First of all, e important to point out say to love God with all your strength na di Commandment wey big pass all. One reason na say, unless you do so, you no fit love your neighbour too. Whether you love your neighbour depend on whether you love God with your whole being. Na only when you love God that di love fit overflow enter di other relationships wey you get.
When you see love for your neighbour as wetin come from your love for God wey overflow, di meaning of this second Commandment go clear more. Jesus no only talk say make you love your neighbour; He talk say make you do am “as you love yourself.” So how you dey love yourself? Di main way na to obey di First Commandment to love God.
To love God with your whole being na really di best way to love yourself too. Why? Because God make us for love and for communion with Him. To love God no be extra favour wey we dey do for God; instead, na way to fulfil di deepest meaning of who we be. God make us for love, and He make us for Himself. So, to love God na di best way to love yourself.
From this starting point, we fit understand better how God dey call us to love our neighbour. If na through loving God and getting close relationship of love with Him that you dey fully love yourself, then you dey love your neighbour as yourself when you help your neighbour enter relationship of love with God too. Nothing wey you fit do for others show love pass to be bridge between dem and God. And di more directly you act as that bridge, di greater your love for dem go be, and di more fully you go obey this Commandment.
Today, ponder on di ways wey you dey act as bridge of love between God and other people. Recognise say this na duty wey you must fulfil, privilege and honour. Commit yourself to love God with your whole heart, and allow that love to overflow and pour out on everybody wey you dey meet every day. Love dey spread from person to person, and e must fill everything wey you be and everything wey you dey do.
Lord, I want to love You with my whole being. Make my love for You grow, and allow that love to overflow enter every relationship wey I get for life. Make love be di one and only mission of my life. Jesus, na You I trust.
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