If (since) Jesus’ explanation that “love God and love
neighbor” is the thing that should define our lives, does it? If you put
this approach for anything else into place and run it to its logical end, are
we being faithful? For example, if you are a basketball coach, your goal
is to train your team to win games. Sure, there are other aspects of the
job, keeping your players healthy, strong, in shape, out of trouble, etc. but
all of these things are for the purpose of winning games.
If you are a medical doctor, your main job is to address
your patients’ health. Again, there are other aspects to the job, but all of
them are for the main purpose of addressing your patients’ health. So,
when we look at our own lives, does “love God and love neighbor” act as the
controlling factor? How we spend our time, how we spend our money, how we
act towards and respond to, other people. Are our lives really just
focused on making ourselves comfortable, entertained and well-fed, until we
retire, when we can focus even more upon comfort and entertainment? The
form of the entertainment really doesn’t matter if that thing is not an
exercise in “loving God and loving neighbor”. Sure there may be other
“benefits” to the entertainment (i.e., relaxation, exercise, mental
stimulation, etc), but if that thing is not based on “loving God and
loving neighbor”, we are missing the point.
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