Day 7              Read: Luke 10:25-37
        
         When this day is over, God will not ask you:
        
             “How many souls did you save?
              How much did you get done?”
         God will ask: “Did you love your neighbor?”
        
         God is not impressed by the fact that we are busy
         doing “good deeds” and “Christian work”.
        
         Our Christianity is so complex and busy (and at the
         same time fruitless) because we are trying to love
         people en masse---in the abstract.
        
             Our Lord commands us to love people as
             He does:               
                           one-by-one
                           one-at-a-time
        
                  “Thou shalt love thy neighbor”
                  (note the singular)
           
             That person who breaks into your busy      
             day with a pass-the-time phone call is
             not just an “interruption”. He is your
             neighbor....sent into your life at that
             moment in the providence of God to
             prove and refine the love of Jesus
             Christ in you.
        
             The unwelcome visitor who upsets your
             quiet evening at home is not a “pest”.
             He is a God-sent neighbor who will call
             forth a new measure of the compassion
             of Jesus in you, if you will obey the
             Spirit.
        
         God loves you as though you were the only one in the
         world. That’s how He wants you to love your neighbor.