最大的诫命
我喜欢问学生，他们认为耶稣说“尽心、尽性、尽意”时，是什么意思。他们即时的反应总是望着我，好像在说我问了他们一个愚蠢的问题；稍后他们的神情便改变了，我静静地坐在那里，而他们则感到不知如何开口。
耶稣被人问及什么是最大的诫命时，祂给了一个众人都熟悉的答案，这个答案出自圣经，是大部份听者都熟记于心的经文（参看申命记 6:4-9），但听到这段经文被称为“最大的诫命，”有些人可能还是会感到惊讶。
你想一想，“尽心、尽性、尽意，爱主你的神，”是什么意思？还有，其次就是“爱人如己，”又是什么意思？这两条诫命，岂不总括了我们整个人生？口里说说这些诫命是一回事，但实行出来却是另一回事。
然而，耶稣就是这样吩咐跟从衪的人：尽你整个人的能力去爱神，又爱你的邻舍。简单来说，我们需要在生活的每一个领域——在职场、学校、商店、路上与家人和朋友、与邻舍和陌生人——都实行出来。我们相信，神每一步都会与我们同在，来帮助和引导我们。
今天你听见耶稣吩咐你这样过生活吗？不单是在今天，而是每一天都是这样。
主啊，求祢帮助我们，尽我们整个人的能力去爱祢，又引导我们去爱人如己。奉祢的名祈求，阿们。
马太福音 22:34-40
34 法利赛人听见耶稣堵住了撒都该人的口，他们就聚集。
35 内中有一个人是律法师，要试探耶稣，就问他说：
36 “夫子，律法上的诫命哪一条是最大的呢？”
37 耶稣对他说：“你要尽心、尽性、尽意爱主你的神。
38 这是诫命中的第一，且是最大的。
39 其次也相仿，就是要爱人如己。
40 这两条诫命是律法和先知一切道理的总纲。”
Greatest
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” — Matthew 22:37
I like to ask students what they think Jesus means by “all your heart and . . . soul and . . . mind.” At first they usually look at me as if I have asked a really dumb question. Then their looks change while I sit there in silence, and they wonder where to start.
When Jesus was asked to identify the greatest commandment, he gave a very familiar answer. It was a part of Scripture that most of his listeners would have known by heart (see Deut. 6:4-9). Some, though, might have been surprised to hear this described as “the greatest commandment.”
When you think about it, what does it mean to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”? And how about the second greatest command: “Love your neighbor as yourself”? These cover everything in life, don’t they? And it is one thing to say them, but quite another to live them out.
Yet that’s what Jesus calls his followers to do: Love God with every part of your being, and love your neighbor. And living that out in every part of our lives—at work, at school, at the store, on the road, with family and friends, with neighbors and strangers—doesn’t have to be complicated. We can trust that God is with us every step of the way to help and guide us.
Do you hear Jesus’ call to live that way today—and every day?
Lord, help us to love you with every part of our being, and guide us to love our neighbors as ourselves. In your name, Amen.
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