Selected from The Worship Center (continued)
Number two, we need to love God and love other people. One of the religious people of His day asked Jesus, starting in Matthew 22:36, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus said the most important thing is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul mind and strength, and the next most important is to love our neighbor as yourself. You’re a blessed person if you know who Jesus is and you love Him. You’re a blessed person if you have that love of God flowing from your heart to other people.
Number 3, He wants to use you that way. There’s nobody in the body of Christ who can’t have that going on. He didn’t say that the most important thing is to be smart, or beautiful or handsome or popular or rich or powerful or any of that. We need just to realize day in and day out that God wants to use us, to use you and me, to show his love through.
It’s not about how bad people are or how wrong they are, it’s about how great God is, and how He works through my weakness, through my flaws, through my imperfections.
You don’t need to have it all figured out yet. You know you got saved. You know you’re not the same. You know you don't think the same. You know you don't talk the same, you know you don’t act the same, you know you don’t feel the same. You know that you feel the hand of God on your life. Because you know that much, you know enough to share Jesus with people.
God is ready to use people who are available who will love Him and are prepared to reach other people. If you care about people, God will work through you move in your life in areas that you would have never imagined.
God is working in the hearts of His people to fill them deeper with His love and then to bring it to the surface for all to see. What He’s wanting to do in these days is for His people to be serious about truly caring about people and loving them as Jesus loves us. Jesus said in John 15:12, "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."