"...love your neighbor as yourself."
Luke 10:27
Dallas Willard said this: “there is a distinctive emphasis by Jesus on loving your neighbor, your ‘near dweller’, not upon loving ‘humanity’ or ‘everyone’. What this means is that our duty and our virtue is to love those with whom we are in effectual contact – those we can really do something about.” Knowing Christ Today, p. 86
Often times we, as Christians, become so overwhelmed by the idea of loving everyone that we choose not to love anyone. After all, if love is sacrificing yourself for another (as Sarah and Laura said this week), then it is crazy to think that we have enough to sacrifice for the whole world.
Loving the whole world is God's job. The job he gave us (as the passage says) is to love those with whom we come into contact every day.
PRAY and ask God to show you the opportunities He has placed in your life each day. Ask Him to reveal to you the 'neighbors' that you can love today.
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