Through love serve one another.
Galatians 4:13-14, For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Jesus addresses the issue of lording it over others, and tells us that the highest calling must be as a servant or even a slave. The lust for power is a great trap, one of the early fathers called it “the greatest of heresies.” The return to legalism that Paul is addressing here is most disturbing since to be justified by the law one must keep the entire law, and if we are honest, we know that we can’t even keep part of it! The law of Christ is love, presupposing the great love that God had for this world, broken as it is, in sending his Son. “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” How are we laying down our lives for others?
Give us opportunities to love our neighbors as ourselves, to serve one another.
ESV Lectionary
Jesus addresses the issue of lording it over others, and tells us that the highest calling must be as a servant or even a slave. The lust for power is a great trap, one of the early fathers called it “the greatest of heresies.” The return to legalism that Paul is addressing here is most disturbing since to be justified by the law one must keep the entire law, and if we are honest, we know that we can’t even keep part of it! The law of Christ is love, presupposing the great love that God had for this world, broken as it is, in sending his Son. “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” How are we laying down our lives for others?
Give us opportunities to love our neighbors as ourselves, to serve one another.
ESV Lectionary
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