Somewhere I remember reading a prayer of Mother Theresa “Enlarge my heart O Lord, so that I can love the whole humanity as You love them”
If one’s heart is small, he/she will stick to one or two commands of the Lord from the Bible and their whole life will be centred around the one and the same command.
As one’s heart grows bigger and bigger the circle of one’s acquaintances expand, the boundaries of caste, religion, clan, nationality, colour, race are broken. That is why king David prayed a prayer as this.
“ I will run the course of Your commandments,
For You shall enlarge my heart. Ps 119:32
As the Lord enlarges one’s heart, two things happen.
- One starts running – not walking in slow motion
- In the course of all the commandments – not one or a few of them.
Somebody asked me “Is it wrong to attend night clubs or parties where you share your love with others”? A good question. It is a command in the Bible to love your neighbor.
But there is another command,
“You have heard that it was said to those of old,* ‘You shall not commit adultery.’* But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matt 5:27-29