Exodus 21:1,2
“These are the laws you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.”
The first thing the Lord mentions here has to do with how we treat each other. He had just given the Ten Commandments, and then He went into the above verses and various other laws. Before He talks about personal injury, property, or social responsibility, He talks about how we are to treat one another. If there was no need for these laws, then He wouldn’t have given them. But He knows what we sometimes forget: that we have a tendency to take advantage of each other and do some horrible things to those around us. This isn’t God promoting slavery but rather Him stepping in and putting His foot down so that we wouldn’t take it too far.
God cares about people the most, more than anything that He created. Can we say the same? Christ didn’t surrender, suffer, and sacrifice to save the trees, or the animals, or even this earth but to save wretched lost sinners like me.
The Bible tells us to set our hearts and minds on things above, not on things below. If we are truly doing this, then we will not only be focused on Him and who He is but will also see who He has put around us to share the Gospel with. Loving God and loving people go hand in hand. You can’t separate the two. Lord, expand our hearts to love You and those you have placed around us today!
1 John 4:20- Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
Luke 10:27- He answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
God bless! I love you all, but His love brings freedom! Glory, honor, and praise now and forever to Papa God, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and the Holy Spirit!
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