March 15, 2026 | Dave McGinley
Passage: Matt. 22:34-46
“While healthy introspection and self-awareness invite us to look inward in order to live outward for the sake of others, self-centrism is an unremitting gaze inward, an inability to see life as anything more than the comparative background to the foreground of our own thoughts, feelings, and perception of experiences.” - Jay Kim, “Analog Christian”
Seeing Jesus love is more than just loving yourself; it is loving God and neighbor.
“But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”” Matthew 22:34-36
And (Jesus) said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and Prophets.” Matthew 22:39-40
Daily Questions: 1. What am I learning? 2. What am I teaching?
Jesus does not need your love but He is worthy of it!
““What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”” Matthew 22:42
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those whoare sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood/chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!” Matthew 23:37
See Jesus’ love in light of the Cross!
“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
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