Keep Love Of God In All We Do!

????As we struggle with so many commitments and responsibilities, we too ask the same question as the scribe, ‘Which of the commandments is the first of all?’ What should be first in my list of priorities, what is my most important duty?

????The first commandment is to love God with all we have – not only with our hearts, but with all our limbs. We need to be embracing the Almighty in all we do. We are called to give him total love in a spirit of adoration. The second is that we have to love the neighbour (all mankind) as being part of ourselves. Especially their sufferings need to impinge on us. Our love should not be for those who please us, but also for those that we don’t like and may be hostile to us.

????The most important thing in life is to have a loving heart, which is very demanding. When we are committed to love, we are not far from the kingdom of God. It's like the open door to the kingdom. Our need for love sometimes brings us to darker places and selfishness, so we need the help of God that love be purified and so bring us closer and closer to the sincerity and purity of love in God's kingdom.

????It is not always easy to love God emotionally, especially when life is difficult. “We are God’s work of art”, as St. Paul tells us in Ephesians. It can be difficult for us to love our neighbour if we don’t love ourselves. Jesus was able to engage in dispute without losing sight of the value of the person to whom he was speaking. Think of what we might do to preserve our values in the world around us.

????Let us pray that we do all the good we can, by all the means we can, in all the ways we can, in all the places we can, at all the times we can, to all the people we can, as long as ever we can. God bless!