People love to get into philosophical and theological and religious discussions about things. What I love about Jesus is that he can boil things down to the really important stuff very easily.
Take the little encounter he has with one of the scribes in Mark 12. The scribe had heard Jesus answer well in an argument that the religious leaders of Israel had with Jesus so he asks him "which commandment is the most important of all?" (Mark 12:28).
I love Jesus' answer: "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' (29-31)
Boiled down to its essence, Jesus is saying:
Recognize God for who He is, love him, and let his love flow through you to others.
It couldn't be more simple. It's too bad we humans muck it up so much. I guess that's why we need the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives to do what we are incapable of.
Pastor Tom
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