Love!
Prophet Hosea was asked by Yahweh to marry a prostitute and love her as God would love him.
The love of God has
to be manifested in the love of neighbor. Hosea was to mirror God’s love to his
wife.
This love relationship progressed wonderfully until they had a son
Jezreel and then Gomer began ‘falling out of love’ for Hosea.
Hosea never gave
up as God would never give up on people.
True love cannot fester violence or
vengeance against the neighbor.
Famous Rabbi Hillel says, “what you find
hateful do not do to another.
This is the whole of the Law: everything else is
commentary”.
The young man in the Gospel understood the meaning of the words
loving one’s God with whole heart and mind and the neighbor.
That’s why Jesus
said, you are not far from the Kingdom of God.
He has the insight and gift of
understanding but one thing lacking is the courage to live up to that love that
calls for a deeper commitment.
The commitment has to accept a neighbor who has
betray us and spread malicious lies against us, to be sensitive to the needs of
a neighbor, to forgive a neighbor who has wronged us and hurt us, to serve that
neighbor who is in need.
So the two loves: love of God and neighbor cannot be
separated but held in healthy tension if you are to truly follow God.
Let us learn
to love that obnoxious neighbor with the ‘love that is poured out into our
hearts’ by God who is Love.
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