Friday, March 3rd
To the question "which is the first of all commandments Jesus replied, "This is the first : listen, O Israel the Lord Our God is one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this, you must love your neighbour as yourself."
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To exercise and possess Our loving spirit you must first receive it from your Heavenly Father. And to receive it you needs must ask that He give it you. And as you receive it harness your mind and heart to Him in praise and thanksgiving, strongly purposing to become and do all that is shown you. So will your capacity for loving increase , your understanding increased according to the measure of your purpose. See, then, that your love for your Heavenly Father and your faithfulness to His loving purpose is the beginning, the means and the end of your whole existence and so of all that is. As this is rightly understood and followed so does the second commandment follow. He who loves the heavenly Father with heart and mind and strength cannot but love and serve his neighbour, for the Father's love will so penetrate his heart and mind that he can do no other, but joyfully identifies with that which the Heavenly Father indicates in action and relationship. Despite occasional failure and the ups and downs of life the faithful adherent of the Father's love will, through grace, graduate to perfection in the Kingdom of the Father. And as each faithful child of the Father rejoices in the giving and receiving of love to his Heavenly Father and to his fellowmen so will he value and rejoice in his own redeemed and sanctified person which will be glorified in eternity through my risen life.