{"id":2081,"date":"2012-05-02T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:39:33","slug":"just-love-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Just Love&#8230; Period."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBut when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again.\u00a0One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus replied, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c\u2018You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.\u2019\u00a0This is the first and greatest commandment.\u00a0A second is equally important: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.\u201d<\/span>\u201d \u2013 Matthew 22:34-40 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Love.\u00a0 Love God; Wholly and completely.\u00a0 Love others; as deeply and personally as if it were yourself.\u00a0 Just Love\u2026 Period.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In this powerful and defining response to his critics, Jesus made it very clear what our primary directive as God\u2019s Children is; to Love.\u00a0 Not to \u201ckind of\u201d love, not to just \u201clike\u201d, not to criticize, judge or condemn, but to love\u2026 openly, unabashedly, and fervently.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Reach out and share God\u2019s overwhelming and uncompromising love today!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again.\u00a0One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: \u201cTeacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?\u201d Jesus replied, \u201c\u2018You must love the LORD your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2801,2799,3194,2757,2802,2803,1180,269,2800,133,2798],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-condemn","tag-criticize","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-gods-children","tag-gods-overwhelming-love","tag-gods-uncompromising-love","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jesus","tag-judge","tag-love","tag-our-primary-directive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}