Love your neighbours

I went to church on last Saturday. The gospel reading for that day was about the first two of the 10 Commandments. The first one is "Love your God". The second is "Love your neghbours like you loved yourself". As human, it is not easy to love others like we loved ourselves. I normally heard from others that "If we don't put ourselves in front, others will. So don't become too kind.". This thought will usually lead people to selfishness. If we look at the scenario nowadays, people eventhough living just next door, they didn't know anything about each other. They only think about themselves and their family. Is that showing what God has told us to do? I don't think so.


In the old days, people communicate a lot with each others especially when they are living in next to each other. As the technology become more advanced where people can communicate with far away friends and relatives, they tend to ignore people around them. I am talking about the scenario that is more likely to be happen nowadays. I am not blaming technology for this to be happen. It is more towards the attitude of people. It may be that this new generation of people didn't have proper teaching about the importance of communicating with people around them. This is more to social value of the people. Their communication skill is not good enough.


I admit that same thing happen to me. I feel so shy to talk to people around me if they are not my friend or relatives. I need them to start the conversation before I will be able to communicate with them. What if both of us think the same way? There will be no communication happening between us. So it is better if both are thinking of starting the conversation as it is easier to initiate communication. This will easier to be happen if we applied what God has told us. If we love our neighbour as we love ourselves then they will less likely for shy to stop us from communicating.


However, there are one major problem for us even from the old days. That is to love our enemy. You may say, "What!? You want me to love this xxx guy/woman??? No way man!!". This is normal for everybody. I will never say it is impossible. It is sure possible but HARD to do. It needs us to be 100% loving others. It is normal for us to pray for our love one. What about if we pray for people we hate the most? This is a big "Can I do this?" question for you. This is your biggest challenge. It's my biggest challenge too but I know that the feeling of forgiving is so great and wonderful. Whenever you forgive someone, you will feel very light and free from all the tiresome of holding the hatred and anger that will surely consume much of your energy. Better for us to use this energy to do more important stuffs rather than using it to hate people. So you can see know that you can increase your productivity just by forgiving others.

"Love God, love your neighbours like you loved yourself and you will be able to TRUELY FORGIVE."