My brother in law is one of the most Godly people I know. He loves God and it is obvious, because he radiates self sacrifice for the good of others. We were talking Sunday and he told me that he had been regularly picking up hitchhikers for several reasons. One, so they wouldn’t have to walk in the heat and two, so that perhaps he could share Jesus with them. Don’t you guys go pick up hitchhikers and tell your parents I said to do this. A while back, Myles saw a guy walking with his thumb up and so he pulled over and picked him up. He was in Memphis and this guy was heading to some tiny town in Arkansas. He drove him for a while and they talked about all kinds of things. This guy told him horrifying stories of the people in his home town. He said that they were going to take matters in to their own hands after the election this year…. Scary huh! Anyway, what impacted me the most is that Myles was willing to go several hours out of his way to take this guy home, when Myles himself was driving 13 hours home from Chicago. Myles is selfless and interested in the comfort of the less fortunate. He also told me that he accidentally picked up a drug dealer without knowing it and dropped him off at a house where two huge guys came out to the car with sawed off shotguns, so its not a good idea for you guys to do this, Im simply stating a point. When you are God Centered you inevitably become concerned with other people’s welfare without consideration for your own comfort.
Its interesting that Jesus summed all of the commandments up into two things in Mark 12:30-31
And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.”
When you fall in love with Jesus and He is at the center of your life, you follow in his footsteps and lay down your life for others.
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