Reflection
All the Law and Prophets can be said to be included in these two simple commandments: Love God and love your neighbour as you love yourself. So if, to your judgement and conscience, anything gets in the way of you truly loving God and loving your neighbour, then it should be ignored. However, if we end up going against lesser commandments, we do need to be careful that we are not just kidding ourselves.
Lord, teach me to love as you love.
Today’s Prayer
Preparation: Begin by stilling; then dedicating the time of prayer to God and asking God that all you think, feel and imagine are for the glory of God.
Gift: Ask for what you desire. Suggestion: To know Jesus more clearly, love him more dearly, and follow him more nearly.
Setting: A Scripture reading to ponder – Lectio Divina or imaginative contemplation
Scripture
Matthew 22:34-40 WEB
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
Jesus said to him,
“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Conversation: Talk to Jesus in your own words as a friend
Final Prayer: End with a formal prayer such as the Lord’s Prayer/Our Father.
Today’s Music
The Power of Your Love: Hillsong