One of the all time cult classic Marvel Comic based movies, "Buckaroo Bonzai," has the line in it, "Remember, wherever you go...there you are!" I was thinking yesterday about this when I read one of the lines of one of the devotionals I use each day. The Biblical principle is "love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself." I've observed that it is absolutely impossible to love someone else if you don't love yourself very much. No matter where you go, you're always there to mess up the mixture of personal relationships.Fortunately, you take the Holy Spirit with you if you're a Christian, so you can rely on His help to give you the raw materials to be able to both love yourself because He loved you first and then to translate that to whomever it is you're trying to get squared away with on a horizontal level.
Actually, if you look at the prescription, Jesus says to love God first...visualize me drawing a vertical stroke representing the upright member of the Cross in the air...which can lead you to love yourself because of your identity in Him...and then loving horizontally...here goes a second air-stroke representing the cross beam...your neighbor. If you try to have good interpersonal relationships without getting right with God in the first place, you're skunked...it's just that simple, as I say to Elfson and Archangel so frequently.
Well, my stomach's growling...
Got baloney sandwich?
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