Matthew 22:39<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd the second is like it: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Loving God must be demonstrable and evidenced in actual behavior. Love cannot be in isolation, and the yardstick of our love for others can easily measure our love for God. What\u2019s the whole point of having a hot and incredible love for God, but it doesn\u2019t show in human behavior? Human behavior is the thermometer that gives an unbiased reading of our love for God. Great worship and passionate preaching are good, but they do not mean anything if we don\u2019t practically love the people we meet every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, let\u2019s tear up this false spirituality that\u2019s centered on an ethereal devotion to God that doesn\u2019t positively impact our friends, families, and neighbors. Let\u2019s monitor how we relate with people and measure all our spirituality by how we treat those we meet. Loving people is the hallmark of the spiritual man. Showing kindness and patience to people is one way to know we\u2019ve encountered God. We cannot say we love God and yet plan evil against another man. It\u2019s time to tear up any system of spirituality that doesn\u2019t add positive value to the people around us. It\u2019s time to be real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLord, I thank You for bringing this to the forefront. I will always measure my spiritual status by how I relate with those around me. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 22:39 \u201cAnd the second is like it: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 \u201c Loving God must be demonstrable and evidenced in actual behavior. Love cannot be in isolation, and the yardstick of our love for others can easily measure our love for God. What\u2019s the whole point of having a hot and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}