Show love thy neighbor As thyself tome yo me the greatest commandment ever given to man by the master is to love our neighbor not just to love him from an emotional sense but to love him as we love ourselves loving ourselves was the greatest mea measuring surin stick christ could have used consider for a moment what is meant by loving someone else just as we love our own selves we never cheat yourselves we never speak evil of ourselves behind our backs and flatter when in our own presence we treat ourselves kindly and before we ever criticize ourselves we take double precaution to weigh all facts and usually we accuse the other fellow of the wrong doing we never tell ourselves a lie we are nearly always right and we become angry if someone else tries to show us that we might be wrong in our dealings with other people we should ever keep in mind the consideration of all facts and angles before we accuse criticize or make a decision speak well of everyone for none of us is perfect every person in this life can stand to be praised and complimented we like to hear good things about ourselves such words of encouragement create faith and desire in a person to further merit praise in other words christ definitely said that we should be honest sincere considerate in our dealings with our neighbor consider him first and then ourselves A certain lawyer asked christ and just who is my neighbor and christ answered A certain man went down from jerusalem to jericho and fell among thieves and left him on the road half dead and by chance there came down a certain priest that way and looked that way but passed around and went his way and soon thereafter a levite passed by but also left without helping the poor man but a certain samaritan came by saw him and had compassion for the wounded man he quickly bound up the wounds pouring oil and wine upon them and took him to an inn inn and took care of him he left two pence with the innkeeper and told him to take care of the wounded man and whatsoever he spent more he would repay him when he returned now christ asked which of these three men was the good neighbor the lawyer answered ibe one who showed mercy christ said exactly now you go and do likewise chances to be a good neighbor are all around us every day and at every turn remember our opportunity is now tonight toni glit always the words of the master are ringing in our cars go ye and do likewise MARIE ALLRED altamont seminary student |