The command to “love your neighbor as yourself” dates back to God’s social justice laws given through Moses to the Israelites. As easy as it is to put our desires above everyone else’s, we must love others in the same way we love ourselves.
2. Leviticus 19:15-18
Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or
favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. Do not
go about spreading slander among your people. Do not do
anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your
neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. Do not
seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your
people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
4. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of
the world. On the contrary, they have divine power
to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments
and every pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God, and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ.
5. -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, June 27 entry
“Never look for justice in this world, but never
cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will
begin to grouse and to indulge in the discontent
of self-pity—Why should I be treated like this?
If we are devoted to Jesus Christ we have nothing
to do with what we meet, whether it is just or
unjust. Jesus says—Go steadily on with what I
have told you do to and I will guard your life.”
