🌾 Loving our neighbor as ourself is putting the other person’s welfare, comfort and well-being ahead of our own. For example, if we are to be servants of the most, we must get used to eating last, after the guests are fed, like true maids and butlers of God. Maybe we won’t be the best, but that does not excuse us from trying our best. Remember, God looks on the heart. That is why the widow who gave a penny was serving more than the rich who gave of their abundance.
The rich are being called to be rich in good works so they can keep their minds off their money and the love of it, and more on God by serving others. Practicing love toward our neighbor requires that we aren’t giving in to our evil natures. Instead, practicing love means following the example of the three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil to their neighbor. This, indeed, pleases God and is how He begins to crush our satanic nature.
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Philippians 2:3-4
So the last shall be first, and the first last.
Matthew 20:16
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7
And He said, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them; 4 for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on.”
Luke 21:3-4
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.
1 Timothy 6:10, 17-19
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galations 5:13
See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Romans 16:20
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