05.23.09
Love First …
God continues to teach me how important it is for us to go back to the basics and start digging into why exactly the universal language is Love.
“Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40
The last sentence of that really spoke to me today. “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these commandments”. Wow, Jesus was really trying to make it clear to us how important Love is – ALL the Law and Prophets hang on it. So why have we so easily looked past the number one thing the greatest teacher of all time taught and the single thing for which ALL the Law and Prophets hang?
We need to go back to basics, renew our minds and open our hearts so we can understand why unity has not yet penetrated the ends of the earth – I ask, does God fail at anything? No! So could it be that we have relied on our own understanding instead of His thus altering the teachings of Jesus? When we rely on our own understanding, quickly it becomes a religion we are teaching (yes, even Christianity can be made a religion!). Did Jesus teach religion? No – He taught Love FIRST by living it and those who didn’t He says this about:
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.” Matthew 15:8-9
He not only lived a life of Love but we are also told to as well:
“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18
If we are to love, why is there so much hate and division? What exactly is going wrong in this world? So I sought His Wisdom – I asked God.
God said this to me, “Sandi, what is the very first thing you teach a baby?”
I replied, “We have to teach them Love.”
He then asked, “How do you teach a baby Love?”
I replied, “By loving them.”
He said, “Would they understand if you first tried to explain with your lips what Love meant?”
I replied, “Well of course not.”
He then asked, “What would happen if you did try to explain it to them?”
I said, “They would hear the words but not understand it.”
He then said, “And as they got a little older let’s say two years old and you tried to explain it, would they understand it then?”
I replied, “No, it would just confuse them.”
He said, “Why’s that?”
I said, “Well, they haven’t matured enough to understand Love any other way and why babies need extra Love. It’s actually the only language they understand.”
He said, “That is right my child so why is it the teachers of today are teaching everything but Love FIRST to my children?”
Tears filled my eyes, “Oh Lord, we have so failed you because we have relied on our own understanding instead of yours. It is time to teach the world Love!”
He smiled at me and said, “Yes, it is time.”
I couldn’t stop the tears. The whole reason why Jesus first taught Love penetrated my very soul. It IS time for the world to be taught Love the way it was meant to be taught and that is by living it. No longer make the mistake of relying on your own understanding when deciding who to Love – you are to Love ALL, that means regardless of any religious beliefs, skin color, status, behavior, choices, etc. It is time for the world to be healed, to be united in that beautiful universal language.
May He bless you and overflow your heart with Love so the whole world will soon know His name because “Love never fails” 1 Corinthians 13:8
Love to you all!
Sandi Rauwolf
Author, Blessings Too Good
