The second greatest commandment, according to Jesus, is to “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). Andrew Murray explains how that commandment needs to affect our attitude toward our neighbor.
“It is in our relation to one another, in our treatment of one another, that the true lowliness of mind and the heart of humility are to be seen. Our humility before God has no value, but as it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow-men. Let us study humility in daily life in the light of these words.
The humble man seeks at all times to act up to the rule, to honor preferring one another; servants one of another; each counting others better than himself; subjecting yourselves one to another.”
How comfortable are you when others are praised and you are forgotten?
The Apostle Paul wrote this advice: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Colossians 3:12-14
This “week” includes my favorite Corrie Ten Boom story, when one of the most cruel guards from the concentration camp where Corrie was imprisoned showed up at a talk she was giving about forgiveness. He asked her to forgive him.
Who do you have trouble forgiving?