Bottom Line - The One Year Daily Wisdom
Bottom Line
Read Proverbs 14
Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The LORD our God is the one and only LORD. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
Mark 12:29-31
What really matters? What’s up? What’s the bottom line? When all is said and done, what has to be said and done? The questions may sound different, but they all express in one way or another the common, deep-rooted desire in people to know that their lives mean something.
Jesus had an answer for the man who had asked him a question. It had two parts, or dimensions: the vertical (our love for God) and the horizontal (our love for people, including ourselves). Every other true rule for living falls under the summary that Jesus gave.
Because Mark 12:29-31 encapsulates this central proverb and key commandment, we will return to it in one reading each month. If Jesus said something was the most important statement of wisdom, we can expect to gain great benefit from giving it our repeated attention.
A WORD FOR TODAY
The greatest proverb—“Love God.”
Dear Lord, teach me to consider important what you consider important. Keep me from distractions that focus my attention on what is not important.
