The Word To Live By: 10-18-25
Phil Waggoner
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than this. Mark 12:30-31
The Word To Live By: The next biblical doctrine that you need to line up with scripture is this. (Note: I am not listing these in order of importance; obviously, Jesus said these two are the most important - you get these, you get them all. I’m saying you need to have them all working together in your spirit to walk in the perfect will of God for your life. See Romans 12:2) Loving your neighbor as yourself is unconditional love for all those people you encounter. The example Jesus gave was in Luke 10 about a man whom the Samaritan did not know and wasn’t even his religion, color, culture or background, that was beaten up and robbed. The Samaritan went out of his way to help him and take care of him to the point he gave up his time and money for the man. It’s summed up best in Matthew 7 when Jesus said, “Treat others the way you want them to treat you.” “I do treat people the way they treat me!” NOPE, that’s not what it says. That’s pride and haughtiness and you are headed for a fall according to Proverbs 16:18. It says to treat people the way you want to be treated. The inference is, how they treat you is not part of the equation. A lot of the fruit of the Holy Spirit is in this “commandment.” Love, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control are all paramount in loving your neighbor as yourself. If nothing else, smile, thank them and walk away. The better you get at this, the more you will see Proverbs 16:7 operate in your life, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Read through the Bible in a year: Revelation 18; Isaiah 3-4; Psalms 109:1-19;
Read through the New Testament and Proverbs: Proverbs 18, Luke 11:28-54, 2 Timothy 4
The sum of Thy Word is Truth Psalm 119:160