TIN MỪNG CHO NGƯỜI TRẺ: LOVING GOD AND OUR NEIGHBOUR
In today’s Gospel reading we learn that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart and soul and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves.
The most important thing you do in your life is loving God. If you really love God then you will do what is right and love other people as well. The Samaritan in the story loved God even though he didn’t worship Him in the proper way like the Jews did. But because he loved God he wanted to please Him by being kind to his enemy.
If you don’t love God then you will not be able to make good decisions about other things either. You can’t even love other people properly if you don’t love God the most. The priest and Levite in the parable probably cared more about themselves than about God. That is why when they saw their own countryman injured and lying by the roadside they just walked past.
Is God the most important person in your life? Talk to Him every day and you will grow to love Him. You can be a good neighbour to everyone by being a good friend of God.