In Luke 10:25-42, Jesus teaches the disciples about our relationship to God and neighbor, and how we truly show the love of God to others. As Christians we rightly talk a lot about the love of God, a love for God, and the love that we have for each other. We should be reminded that the summary of the Law of God is to love God and our neighbor as ourselves. This means that our love for our neighbor concretely and practically lived out shows the love we have for God.
As Christians we want to display the mercy and compassion of God to others, but how do we do it? We dare not put our hope in our works for God, what we “do” in order to live, yet we do dare to live out our lives loving God and neighbor by faith as Christ commands and enables us by his grace.
We must constantly as Christians learn how far short we fall in keeping God's law, and we must drink deeply of God's grace found in Christ alone. We must continue to learn that our right standing before God is based on what Christ did and merited for those who believe. Our hope is not in ourselves, not in our works, not in our trying to get around the actual perfection before God that the Law demands, but to find our hope in Christ alone. In Christ, we love and serve God and neighbor our ourselves.
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Rev. Charles R. Biggs, Th.M. is the Regional Home Missionary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of the Mid Atlantic (Virginia and Maryland). His website: www.joiningtheharvest.org. He was pastor of Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church in Purcellville, VA. for...
