Sunday, February 9, 2014

The Greatest Commandments

Recently I attended an event where a group of friends and I got together to hang out for a couple of days. It was fun for the most part, but at night time when I went to bed, I felt deeply lonely. It wasn't just that I had gone to bed before anybody else, and was actually alone. I can handle being alone just fine, and usually love it. I just can't handle feeling lonely.
So I opened my scriptures. I found Matthew 22:36-40, which reads

  Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
 This is the first and great commandment.
 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Then I realized something. If God loves us, everything he asks of us is meant to make us happy. And if these two commandments are the greatest things he asks us to live by, they will make us the happiest.
I still felt lonely afterwards, but it wasn't nearly as bad, because I had a solution. That solution is love.