Greatest Commandment

Foundations / Matthew 22:34–41

Everybody loves something.

To love is to do what’s best for the other person regardless of what it costs you by acting with both delight and wisdom.

Matthew 22:34–38 ESV

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.

1 John 4:7–12 ESV

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

In Delight we say, God you are worthy to be worshiped for who you are

In Wisdom we say, God I will apply your words to my life

Matthew 22:39–40 ESV

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Delight says, I love that you have made it this far

Wisdom says, I love that you can move forward.