When it comes to giving, what do we give? Money? Food? Clothes?
Read Matthew 22:36-40 and journal your initial thoughts
Sometimes when it comes to giving, we can focus too much on the material things. But what Jesus tell us here is that we need to love our neighbors as ourselves. Love is more than just the giving of material things. Love can be expressed through giving things like food, clothes, money, and stuff, but love is something more than that.
Loving our neighbor goes deeper, it’s revealed in the amount of time we spend with them. It is easy to give material things, because we can always get those back. But time, once it’s gone, it’s gone. Time is not only the most important thing we can give for us, but for the other person. When someone is going through a difficult time, sometimes what they need most is just someone to be there, someone to listen. Sometimes the most important way to show someone you love them is simply to be a friend.
Today pray that God would show you those opportunities when the most important thing you can do is to be a friend.
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