In a nutshell God is telling us only two commandments: to love Him and and love our neighbors. Simple, isn’t it? Yeah! But not quite.
“Loving” comes easy in this day and age of material wealth and power. For a rich man, everything seem to be possible except the stairway to heaven? Hmmm…
Most of the times we are overwhelmed by the goodness of a certain situation or a certain feeling that we equate it to be a blessing or to be God’s. The loving gestures, lending hands, support, camaraderie and all other good things that are mistakenly seen as loving kindness. We become so overwhelmed. Is this really so? If the yardstick to loving is all seen in the tangible things that man can do, then for someone who is rich, famous & powerful is not a big task to show love. Everything is right there ready for give-out and distribution. Sealed with cheerfulness, enthusiasm and passion! But lo and behold! God is watching. Is it sealed with love?? God looks right through the windows of our soul which is our heart. For God the bottom line is not what we said, what we did and whatever we accomplished. All of these can be easily magnified. What matters most is what is inside the heart of each of us.
The stairway to heaven is not at all in the good deeds that we have done in the eyes of many but in the secluded and silent deeds we did from the bottom of our hearts where no man can pass a judgment.
May I ask ourselves: I ALWAYS SAY I LOVE GOD AND THAT HE COMES FIRST, BUT CAN I PROVE IT WITH MY LIFE?
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