Impacting Your WorldSýnishorn

NO GREATER COMMANDMENT

It’s often said that Christianity is all about love. Which it is, but how do we define love and what it means in practice. Jesus was clear in saying that loving God and loving others was at the heart of all godly morality. Few would disagree. But it leaves open this matter of just how we love. It is one thing to say the golden rule is love, but what is ‘loving’ in certain situations? Is granting someone’s wish loving? Is allowing someone to have their own way loving? Is a word of rebuke loving? 

Love may not always involve doing the pleasant or comfortable or expected thing. The overarching rule of love has to be applied to each and every situation. I am commanded to love and, in order to do so fruitfully, I have to invite the Spirit of God to help me know how and when and where to love. God’s rule book gives me the principle: God’s Spirit gives me wisdom to practise that principle.