The greatest commandment

Posted by ESC on August 29, 2003

In Reply to: Everything happens for a reason? posted by Gvr4in on August 29, 2003

: Ive had numerous people tell me everything happens for a reason.. I have my own opinions on the topic, I'd like to hear everyone elses first. Thanks!

Are you asking whether everything that happens is part of a "great plan"? In my community a week ago, a flash flood swept away a house and drowned a mother and her six-year-old son. A man who survived the flood said he'd lived on that creek 53 years and it had never risen that high or that fast. Did he live and the woman and her little boy die for a "reason"? Well, his house was stronger than that of the woman. But as far as a cosmic "reason," I don't know and neither does anyone else. But my feeling is that sometimes things just happen. The luck of the draw. The woman normally took care of her little granddaughter. The girl wasn't there that day. She lived, the boy died. Why? Trying to figure out "why" can make you crazy. All we can do is love God and love one another. Loving each other includes working towards a society where people don't have to live in a rickety house by a creek.

That's about as profound as I can get this morning.

Bringing it back to phrases, the events in Alabama (a judge refusing to obey an order to take down a Ten Commandments monument on public property) made me think of the "Greatest Commandment." Nobody ever mentions that. Jesus only gave us two commandments and they are:
Matthew 22
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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