Loving your neighbor *as yourself* may seem daunting, but it’s a love learned by degrees. Treat him as you wld treat yourself & you’ll begin to see him as you see yourself. Interestingly, the love you give reciprocates: forgive him his faults & you’ll begin to forgive yourself.
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” #CSLewis Begin to obey. The affection will follow.
The longer, more consciously & anxiously you obey this law of love, the more natural & perfect the love becomes until it encompasses humanity, & the closer you become—in likeness & proximity—to Christ. But you don’t have to feel it to begin. “Faith precedes the miracle.” #Kimball
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