Love your neighbour
Tuesday · Day 1722 SeptLove your neighbour as yourself.
The command is ordinary-sounding until you define neighbour. Jesus demolishes every border the word 'neighbour' usually draws. It is not whoever is easy or like you — it's whoever is in front of you, in need. Even the ones you'd rather cross the street to avoid.
Try it today
- ✓Let the definition of neighbour expand by one category today
- ✓Love one stranger with the energy you usually save for friends
- ✓Include yourself in 'as yourself' — that's the baseline, not the prize
Pray it today
- Ask Jesus to redefine your neighbours
- Thank him that he treated himself as ordinary love demands you be treated