Welcome back to my story.
The great virtues that I practiced and taught to everyone were to live out and speak the truth at all times and to humble ourselves as innocent children. No one can enter the Kingdom of justice, truth, love, and peace if they believe they are more important than anyone else. I taught we must be as innocent as children before God.
When I was talking to a crowd, they asked me what was the most important commandment of all. Matthew wrote the story in his book, Chapter 22. I answered that and said.
“The first and most important commandment is to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, and mind, and the second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself” and “Who is my neighbor? they asked me”. I told them the story of the man that was attacked and left dying on the side of the road. A priest came and walked by and did nothing to help him.
Then an official came by and ignored the dying man who was bleeding to death. But a humble trader, a non-Jewish person, from Samaria, who was like a migrant in Palestine, a foreign land for him. He stopped and had compassion and care for the dying man and cleaned and bound up his wounds and brought him to a rest house and paid his expenses there until he was cured. “When I come back, I will pay more,” he said to the caregiver.
That is being a true neighbor, a person with compassion and empathy. He served and helped, asking no reward, benefiting nothing for himself, and was dedicated and selfless to helping his fellow human. Unless you have the mind, heart, and soul to take action to help others, you have no love in your heart. Do not think that you can love God or be my friend if you don’t help others. If you ignore, reject, and leave the sick and wounded to die of poverty, hunger, violence, and injustice, you cannot be my disciple.
If you cheat, steal, or fail to do your duty with honest commitment, dedication, and integrity, you are like a thief. If you sinned, you must repent, believe my words, reject evil and wrongdoing, and ask forgiveness. It is a matter of your free choice to change your mind and heart to do good and love the poor and not just to please yourself. Because to love God and yourself in the right way means you love first your neighbor.
Reflect on these words, and come again if you want to know the truth, Jesus.
