Luke 10:25-28

This passage is simple to understand and hard to accomplish. Why is it that with our mouths we proclaim our love for others and in the next instant recall someone’s past to bring them down to our level? Human nature is to level the playing field and we do that by recanting everyone’s sins so that we look just as good or better in the eyes of someone else. I agree with Paul that if we could just control our tongue we could conquer hatred and out of the depths of our hearts we would speak of God’s love, mercy and forgiveness. Without love we are just making noise!

To inherit something is to receive it. In other words, the man was asking, “What must I do to share in the reward at the resurrection of the righteous at the end?”  Jesus countered the lawyer’s test by having him answer his own question. The basis of the man’s response is an expression of allegiance and devotion that also can be seen as the natural expression of faith, since the total person, heart, soul, strength, and mind, is involved. Jesus develops the theme of love for one’s neighbor.

Luke 10:25-28

25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 He said to him,  “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”

27 So he answered and said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”

28 And He said to him,  “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”