Love is All We Need!

Matthew 22.36-40
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

All we need is love. There you go; the devotional ends here… Well, it could end here because what we need and more importantly, what others need begins and ends here. When John Lennon made that statement in the 1960’s, he was on to something. Love. But sadly, he missed the point. Love is the beginning, not the end. Jesus told us that the law and the prophets hang on loving God and loving others. His insinuation is that without these two commandments, it is pointless to follow the rest.

The thought of loving God with all our heart, soul, and mind is not new to us. It is very easy to love God. We know that we know that we know He has saved our souls from Hell. We also know that anyone who calls on Jesus will be saved from Hell too.

This is where the loving others part comes in. Jesus said to love your neighbor as you love yourself. To love others as ourselves; we need to offer them the same opportunity of a redeemed life that God has given us.

In Second Corinthians it talks about God giving us the ministry of reconciliation:
II Corinthians 5.16-18
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

Love is all we need. The love of Jesus compels us to follow his example to love others; not as the world does, for what they can get from others, but instead for what we can give away to them... Jesus.