This is today’s snoopy comic strip. Despite the humor in the fact that Schroeder became sidetrack by his hero Beethoven, his point is very true. Jesus in Mark told the Pharisees:
The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31, NKJV)
If we are not living our lives for others, what value of happiness can be found in it? When asked to give the greatest commandment, he could have just said to love the Lord. Yet He chose to forever connect the two. One cannot love God and not love others. If we truly seek after God's heart, we are going to find it is caring about people.
This is really just the tip of another topic I want to write about in a couple of days, which is priorities. But the simple point is this, if it is God’s heart for use to love people, then we are never going to find happiness in serving ourselves. Does happiness come from always spending five dollars on yourself or from occasionally giving the five dollars away to a little girl to go buy a ice-cream cone? Does happiness come to the man who spends his life buying toys for himself or to the parents who sacrifice so their children can have a better life then they did?
Until next time, have an awesome day and go love some people.
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