Words of Jesus: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025

Tuesday, December 23, 2024

Today’s reading is both challenging and reassuring.

Luke 6:27-31   ““But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.”

 RSV

In today’s reading in Luke Jesus sums up His initial instructions with a practical interpretation of that second greatest command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”(Mat. 22:39)  Loving your neighbor as yourself is doing to others “as you wish that men would do to you”.   Don’t we all want to be treated better than the judgements we deserve?  Is that another way to describe what Jesus is talking about in this passage?  Treat others better than the judgements and retaliations they deserve?   On a much larger, eternal scale, that is what God does for us: He treats us infinitely better than we deserve!   

THANK YOU, GOD!

Sharing this with you is a way that I can love you as I love myself.