December 14
There is one commandment that supersedes the others, for in its keeping, so will the rest be kept. God said, “I am the Lord your God; you shall have no other gods before Me,” Exodus 20:2, 3.
Of it, Jesus said in Matthew 22:37, 38, “This is the first and greatest commandment, that you should love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your strength and the second is like it: that you should love your neighbor as yourself.”
Love is the imperative that transforms mere selfish, egotistical, shallow, fallen, corrupt men from the worst of their humanity to reflect the best of Heaven’s treasure—JESUS. When a man receives Jesus as his Savior and Lord, he will allow the Holy Spirit of the Living God to work within him to remake him into an image of Christ.
A man, remade in the Lord’s likeness, will reflect His love, His truth, His salvation, His glory, to the lost and dying world around him. That man will obey the commandment Jesus stated in John 13:34, “Love each other. You MUST love each other as I have loved you.” This is the love Paul says will never fail (I Corinthians 13:8).
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