Love

Good Afternoon,

Matthew 22:34-40 (NIV)
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " '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 neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Love, my friends, is the answer. It's the answer to obeying all the God has commanded. Just as Jesus said to the Pharisees when questioned by the lawyer.

It's so simple, and yet so many miss it. If we love God and our fellow man, with a real and true love, then we will never break the commands of God.

Now, if this is so, and it is without doubt, argument, or question, then why in the world do we find ourselves sinning and not obeying what God has set down for us? I guess that the answer is pretty clear, don't you? It simply has to do with our lack of love that we ought to have in our lives. I would guess that it affects us all, this lack of true and real love. I say that because there is no one without sin, no one who has not gone against God's commands and commandments.

Something that we all need to think about and work on in our lives, I would think.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David