ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Thursday September 18th, 2025

Topic: Live To Love Other Men.

Memory Verse : Mark 12:31. The second most important commandment is this: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment more important than these two.”

Bible Reading : Luke 10:33-36.GNB. Key Verse : v36.

But a Samaritan who was travelling that way came upon the man, and when he saw him, his heart was filled with pity. He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he told the innkeeper, ‘and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.’ ”

Jesus Christ was having a private chat with his disciples when a teacher of the law or a religious scholar came to ask him questions about what he could do in order to inherit eternal life. Then Jesus replied by asking him what the law of Moses commanded. So the man had to provide the answer by himself. “The man answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’ ” “You are right,” Jesus replied; “do this and you will live.” But the teacher of the Law wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbour?”” Luke 10:27-29.

Now Jesus had to use the parable of the Good Samaritan to paint the picture of who a true neighbour was, in answer to the question of who a true neighbour should be. By the way Jesus followed this religious teacher, you will see that he knew the answer to his own questions, but was there to test Jesus. Jesus in his wisdom made him answer his own questions at the end of the day. “Jesus answered, “There was once a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when robbers attacked him, stripped him, and beat him up, leaving him half dead. It so happened that a priest was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he walked on by, on the other side. In the same way a Levite also came along, went over and looked at the man, and then walked on by, on the other side.” Luke 10:30-32.

At the end, it was a Samaritan who came to the rescue of the man who was attacked by robbers on his way from Jericho to Jerusalem, probably to worship. The priest and levite who should have known the law better and who saw themselves as men who had a place in God’s plan in their days avoided the man. It was a Samaritan who was seen as an outsider to the covenant of God with the children of Israel that had compassion on the wounded traveller as to take him up, clean him, minister first aid to him before taking him to an inn where he spent a whole night taking care of him. By the time he was leaving the next day, he deposited some money for his upkeep and medical promising to return to offset every extra bill incurred by care givers to enable this very man he only met on the way and in distress bounce back to full fitness. At the end the teacher of the law concluded that the Samaritan was the one who behaved like a true neighbour to the man in distress. “We love because God first loved us. If we say we love God, but hate our brothers and sisters, we are liars. For people cannot love God, whom they have not seen, if they do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen.” 1 John 4:19-29.

Prayer : Thank you Father God for loving me and giving me Jesus to save my soul. Help me to be like you, let your love rule my heart. Help me to demonstrate your love to everyone that comes my way on earth. Make me a source of blessing and encouragement to others in Jesus precious name….. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : John 16:5-33.

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