The Greatest Commandment

The Greatest Commandment

by Joyce Meyer - posted July 10, 2015

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.
- Matthew 22:37-39
This was how Jesus responded when He was asked which was the greatest commandment and law. In Matthew 7:12, Jesus said, Whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, for this (sums up) the Law and the Prophets. So, to experience God and His plan for our lives, we are to look for the needs of others and do what we can to serve them.
Our religion is not pure if it is polluted with "self." Our self-centeredness keeps us from noticing what other people are going through. We don't have to totally forget about our desires. But we must chase selfishness away by not always thinking about them. Psalm 37:4 plainly tells us that when we delight in the Lord, He gives us the desires and secret petitions of our hearts.