25 Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”
26 He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it?”
27 He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”
28 “Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”
What is an eternal life be lived out for a disciple of Jesus? Jesus answered to a religious teacher with the Greatest Commandment of God: To love the Lord our God with all our passion (heart), all our prayer (soul), all our muscle (strength), and all our intelligence (mind); and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Continually living out this life (the life of Jesus) daily is to get eternal life - not owing eternal life but to be owned by the life of Jesus. Jesus lived out the eternal life by loving God with all his passion, all his mind, all his strength, and all his time; and he lived out the eternal life by loving sinners like us with all the sacrifice of his life - even exceeding the demand of the law.
My Lord Jesus, I want to have the eternal life like you and with you - walking with Jesus every day and learning how to love my God with my life, and to love people with a compassionate heart like you, and practicing faith to walk as a stranger or pilgrim on earth as I know that I have been called by Jesus to enter into God's Kingdom that will be fully manifested as Jesus returns to inaugurate His kingdom on earth.
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