Matthew 22:34-40
34-36When the Pharisees heard how he had bested the Sadducees, they gathered their forces for an assault.
One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up: "Teacher, which command in God's Law is the most important?"
37-40Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list.
But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.'
These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."
They were going to get him. That was their goal.
Isn't that the goal we all have sometimes, if we're brutally honest?
Let's trap Jesus. Let's put him in the corner, in a box, in a jar up on the shelf, and just take out the parts and pieces we want.
Surely it's not hard to ask him questions that he can't answer, right? So the Pharisees thought. But his answer was devastatingly simple, and beautiful, and hard.
What's most important?
Love God, love everyone else. That's how it all hangs together.
Simple. Yes.
Easy? No.
How can love flow that completely when I am such a sinner...and so are the people I'm called to love?
It takes a miracle...to let the love flow. But with God, nothing is impossible.
Grace & Peace,
Adam
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