Aug 6, 2025 … Loving Our Neighbors …

Aug 6, 2025 … Loving Our Neighbors   …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Dale Sechrest singing… With All My Heart,  … capturing God’s command to love others, especially our neighbors, as we would love ourselves.

Highlight Passage:: … James 1:19-20 … [NLT] … 

19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. 20 Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires … 

… James exhorts fellow Christians to diligently listen and avoid anger in dealing with our neighbors,       

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … James 1:19-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus’ brother, James, shows fellow Christians how to love one another as they (we) would love themselves (ourselves).              

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Reference Passage: …  Leviticus 19:18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses, commands God’s people to avoid seeking revenge and to love our neighbors as w love ourselves. 

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 7:12, 19:19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches His disciples and fellow Christians His “golden rule” to love others as we would love ourselves. 

Reference Passage: …   Mark 12:30-31 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… John Mark relays Jesus’ teaching from God’s commands to treat our neighbors as we would treat ourselves. 

Reference Passage: … John 15:12 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus COMMANDS His disciples - and by extension ALL Christians - to love one another as He, our Lord, loves them (us). 

Reference Passage:…  Romans 13:8-10  NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth to fellow Christians about how to love one another.  

Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:14   [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches that the entire Law of Moses is summarized and fulfilled as fellow Christians love our neighbors as ourselves. 

My Devotional Journal</u>: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Dave Brannon … AT THIS LINK      … relates a personal story of having to clean up all the debris, … i.e., leaves and tree limbs, … from a storm which blew the debris into the ODB Author’s yard, even though the author had no trees to produce all the leaves and limbs in his yard after the storm.   And during the cleanup, the author was convicted by knowing how God’s word commands us to “love our neighbors as ourselves.”  

And if my readers have taken the time to listen to the linked song and meditate on the Scriptures shared above, i’m pretty sure that you all will be as convicted as I am that we can certainly do more to openly show Christian love to all those we call “our neighbors,” … which, of course. is ALL others in our lives.  How can we go out today and share God’s love and His grace with our “neighbors?”  I plan on putting that at the top of my “to do” list today.   How about you? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for showing us how to love others as we love ourselves.  

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again Lord. …for modeling and showing us the kind of love we need to share with others today. … Amen

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