by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
If you want to live a great life, live a life of great love. I first wrote those words back in 2017, and they are just as true today as they were back then. We exist in a love-starved society, and that is one of the reasons why so many people feel down and depressed all the time. Today, millions of Americans are on antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. In fact, it has been reported that more than 250 million prescriptions are issued for antidepressants in the United States each year. Others try to self-medicate by using illegal drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling or other forms of entertainment to make themselves feel better. If it seems like most people in the general population are desperately unhappy, that is because most people in the general population really are desperately unhappy.
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Some people think that if they just had enough money they would finally be happy.
But of course the truth is that many of the wealthiest individuals in the entire world are extremely unhappy.
Ultimately, success in life is not about how much stuff you are able to accumulate before you die.
Rather, it is about how much you are able to love.
We were designed to love and be loved, and love is supposed to be the focus of our lives.
In Matthew chapter 22, we read how Jesus responded when He was asked about the greatest commandment…
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Some people out there need to read those verses over and over again.
We are supposed to love God greatly, and we are supposed to love others greatly.
In Matthew chapter 5, Jesus said that we are even supposed to love our enemies…
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
How much of this do we see today?
Not very much at all.
Today, we are trained to hate our enemies.
Our society has never been more divided than it is at this moment. Those in positions of power use every trick in the book to divide us in just about every way that you can possibly imagine.
We are taught that those that are on “our side” are the good guys, and those that are on the “other side” are worthy of our vitriol and must be defeated at all costs.
I have never seen more hatred than I am seeing right now. And there is something about the Internet that makes people comfortable saying things that they would never say person to person.
But that is not what Jesus would have us do.
He died on the cross for every single person on this planet.
So who are you to hate someone that Jesus cared enough to die for?
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