JESUS said: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40).
In the above passage, Jesus taught two fundamental principles of the kingdom of life.
This is the love principle, which requires humanity to love God, self and neighbour.
The reason for abusive relationships, crimes, murders and other wicked actions on earth is self-hatred or lack of self-love.
The extent of love one has for yourself determines the extent of love you can give to the next person.
No one is capable of loving another beyond the measure of self-love.
A man who abuses his wife does so because he is craving love; he is starved of love and is full of self-hatred.
1 John 4 says: “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.”
And he has given us this command: “Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.” It also says: “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8).
