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God's Great Heart

Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.  Luke 11:27

Divine love, like a reflected sunbeam, shines down before it radiates out. Unless our hearts are conditioned by the Holy Spirit to receive and reflect the warmth of God's compassion, we cannot love others as we ought.

Jesus wept tears of compassion at the graveside of a friend. He mourned over Jerusalem because its people had lost their sensitivity to God and His Word. His great heart was always sensitive to the needs of others. When challenged to state the most important commandment, He replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Matthew 22:37, 39). 

Jesus' love was more than human compassion, however; it was in the fullest sense divine love, for He was God in human flesh. This is the kind of love He calls us to have--and the kind He will give us as we seek it from Him.

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.