Difficulties

Question to think about: Who do you need to love?

Sometimes life becomes so difficult that the difficulties define an individual.
Eventually the individual is perceived as difficult.
The thing is . . . others back away from difficult individuals afraid that land mines of distrust . . . anger . . . bitterness . . . self-hate . . . or hate of others will blow up.
Nothing is solved . . . more difficulties arise . . . and the pattern is repeated.

What can we do?

Christ gave the second most important life-law:
And the second command is like the first: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. (Matthew 22:39, NASB)

We are given the life-law to love others . . . our neighbors . . . as we love ourselves.

In other words, we need to love our life in order to love others.

What we all need, more than anything else, is love.

Love your neighbor
as yourself regardless of any difficulties.

Learning with you to love neighbors,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2009 All Rights Reserved)