March 12 Morning Devotional | Love Your Neighbor | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, March 12 | “You shall love your neighbor.” —Matthew 5:43 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Matthew 5:43-48 (NASB)

““You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

“Love your neighbor.” Perhaps he rolls in riches, and you are poor, and living in your humble dwelling next-door to his mansion; you see every day his estates, his fine clothes, and his sumptuous banquets. God has given him these gifts, covet not his wealth, and think no hard thoughts concerning him. Be content with your own lot, if you cannot better it, but do not look upon your neighbor, and wish that he were as yourself. Love him, and then you will not envy him.

Perhaps, on the other hand, you are rich, and near you reside the poor. Do not scorn to call them neighbors. Admit that you are bound to love them. The world calls them your inferiors. In what are they inferior? They are far more your equals than your inferiors, for “He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” (Acts 17:26) It is your clothing which is better than theirs, but you are by no means better than them. They are men, and what are you more than that? Take heed that you love thy neighbor even though he be in rags, or sunken in the depths of poverty.

But, perhaps, you say, “I cannot love my neighbors, because for all I do, they return ingratitude and contempt.” So much the more room for the heroism of love. Would you be a featherbed warrior, instead of bearing the rough fight of love? He who dares the most, shall win the most; and if the path of love is rough, tread it boldly, still loving your neighbors through thick and thin.
Heap coals of fire on their heads, and if they are hard to please, seek not to please them, but to please your Master; and remember if they spurn your love, your Master has not spurned it, and your deed is as acceptable to him as if it had been acceptable to them. Love your neighbor, for in so doing you are following the footsteps of Christ.

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