Mat 22:39 And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

This is the second part of the command that Jesus said was the most important.  This seems to require the most extensive explanation.  I am going split this topic into other categories that will be discussed at a later date.  Here is a list of some of the categories that I will talk about later:

1.  Showing each other love while working together.
2.  Showing towards people that don’t like you.
3.  Showing love towards people that irritate you.
4. Love for the lost and misguided.

There are other subjects that could be listed.  These are all I can think of at this time.  You could think of other subjects.  My mind is so limited.

God takes how people treats us or how we treat other people personally.  We are his creation.  He used himself as a template to each other.  When Saul (Later called Paul) was persecuting Christian, Jesus appeared to him and said, “Why are you persecuting me?”  Jesus said me not my followers.  To persecute Christians was the same as persecuting Him.  What greater love that a God could show placing his people at the level as Himself.

Galatians 5:13, 14 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

This scripture almost seems in conflict with the greatest commandment.  After to fulfill the entire law, don’t you also need to love God also.  This must refer to the attitude we are to treat one another.  We are not to treat or see each other as Gods, but as God’s creation.  How do you feel when after you drew a painting, or put together a kit or anything else one makes, that the heart and soul was put into.  Any complaint about what you made is usually taken personally and you feel insulted by the complaint.   This shows how God regards each of us.  We are his creation.  Anytime we are insulted, God takes it personally even with our imperfections.  God is showing us the road to perfection and is continually working on us.  He does not like it when someone interferes with His work.  We may need to go to heaven to accomplish that, but God is working on it while we are on Earth.  God does it because He loves us.

Another aspect of loving each other is that God has gave us permission to call Him our Father.  That means He thinks of us as His sons and daughter (little s and d).  Which father likes it when their children fight against each other.  God loves us as we are His children and we should observe each other as God sees us.

As I said in the other blog posts, my mind is finite is finite.  I never regard what I say is the final word or something that can’t be corrected.  This is a writing that is to be a starting point for a more involve relationship with God.  Happy travels.