God Showed Us, In Jesus, What He Requests

Yesterday, when I began to write, I got a block in thought.  I was thinking that I had begun to travel down a negative road.  And so I gave my fingers, and mind, a rest.

About five, or six, blogs ago I began with this wonder: What Does God Request?  

I have tried to briefly break down my thoughts about what we are told, in the Old Testament.

Now I am to consider what Jesus taught on this subject. 

Then this morning I was reading a new devotional written by Eugene Peterson: ‘Every Step An Arrival.’

After his reflection, on Genesis 1:27-28, he asks this:  

“Who are you in relation to others, in relation to God, and in relation to the world?  Ask God to make clear to you who he made you to be and what it means to be fully human in his eyes.”(p.6)

I sat here a moment and wrote:  God showed us, in Jesus, who we are to be; and how we are to be.

All we have to do is pay attention to what Jesus taught, the way he spoke and how he acted.  

It is not rocket science!

^37… “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” ³⁸This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’(Mt. 22)

We all have heard these words over and over and over again.  

Right?