The most important thing in life

The most important thing in life.

What is the most important thing that a person should being doing in this life? Let us look at some scriptures to see if we can find the answer.

Mat 22:36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

Mat 22:37 Jesus said to him, “you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Mat 22:38 “This is the first and great commandment.

Mat 22:39 “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Mat 22:40 “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

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God is telling us that loving Him is greatest commandment and what we should being doing. Also another point is that one way we love God is by loving our neighbor.

What about the church today? Do Christians love God like the Bible teaches? Jesus told us about a man who was hurting in the story of the Good Samaritan. Would you stop and help that man. Jesus told us that man was our neighbor.

Do Christians help out other believers in Christ today who are less fortunate then they are?

Mat 25:37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

Mat 25:38 ‘When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

Mat 25:39 ‘or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’

Mat 25:40 “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to Me.’

Do Christians today really help out other Christians financially? Do they visit other sick Christians and feed those in need?

How did the early Church live? Read Acts 2:42-47. Christians at that time shared everything like food and all of their material possessions. They live in community next door to one another and had fellowship daily. How often do we as Christians get together with other Christians? Maybe once a week? Today I do not believe that Christians have all things in common with one another.

Do we really love God? 1Jo 3:16 by this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Our identity as a Christian is determined on the basis of our love for our fellow Christians. See: 1 John 3:14. 

1Jo 3:17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

1Jo 3:18 my little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Jesus said in the end times that love would grow cold. Read Matthew 24:12. Do Christians have an excuse for not loving? We are to love God and demonstrate this by loving the brethren, our neighbor and our enemies.

The Bible teaches us that judgment must first begin at the house of God. God will judge His people first and that judgment is upon us now by Christ being outside the Church.

Rev 2:4 “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Rev 2:5 “Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.”

We as Christians left our love for God and we are about doing the lesser things concerning the Christian life. God is telling us to repent do the first works which are loving God by loving our brethren, neighbor and enemy. Revelation 3:20 tells us that Christ is outside of the Church trying to get in but we have not repented of our sins of not loving God. This is the condition of the Church today.

This is why the Christian life today is so empty, lonely, depressing and similar to the world. Christians are to forgive one another from the heart and if they do not then God will not forgive them See: Matthew 18:35. This is one reason why our lives have different kinds of torment.

What is the solution? Repent and begin again to love like God.

Bill Naugle