Today's readings are Leviticus 17.1-16 and Luke 10.23-42.
What is the summary of all the Law and prophets? "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" (Luke 10.27, ESV). Notice how the lawyer talking with Jesus skips right over the first and greatest command, pertaining to loving God. He jumps right to what constitutes loving your neighbor. Yet which one of us manages the first? Who loves the Lord with all his heart, soul, strength, and mind? None of us does this greatest command the Lord has given us.
Today's prayer from the Treasury of Daily Prayer is striking. It's found on p. 259. "Lord Jesus Christ, in Your deep compassion You rescue us from whatever may hurt us. Teach us to love You above all things and to love our neighbors as ourselves; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever."
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