Echoes of Truth
February 28th
Theme:The Greatest Commandment
Love is the sum of all the commandments. – John Wesley
Have you ever spent some time to meditate on how and why Jesus would relegate the ten commandments and the other 613 breakdowns of the law into just two? Jesus said to love God wholeheartedly and to love man as one’s self sums up all the law and no one could refute that (Matthew 22:37-39).
The truth is that the life handed to us in Christ has revealed through His life that the laws and commandments don’t matter. What matters is the will of God. In Jesus’s ministry across the Gospels, Jesus never referred to Himself or anyone else for that matter that the key to God’s heart is to obey the law.
Instead, Jesus would always reference that doing what pleases the Father at all times is His ultimate goal. Therefore the will of the Father is the commandment. How then could Jesus totally do the Father’s will even to the point of death on the cross? Simple. He loved His Father.
1Jesus teaches with His life and ministry that obedience to the commandments, the will of God, is made easy and enjoyable when it is done out of utmost love for God and not out of fear for His wrath.
Jesus lived to do whatever the Father commanded per time, each day, anywhere, however the Father pleased (John 4:34; John 6:38; John 5:30). That was how He obeyed all the ten commandments and the other laws of Moses as highlighted in the Torah. And there was no fault in Him!
The lesson then is that if we choose to do God’s will over our own will each day and time, in our daily lives, we will fail before we even started if it is from the place of fear and self-interest.
But if we arise to the expectation of God over our lives out of love for Him, allowing Him to guide us daily because we trust Him with all that we are, obedience to His will becomes a light and easy yoke that binds us to Christ and makes us more like Him.
The new covenant commandment is to do the will of God which is only possible when we love God above any other person dear to our hearts, love Him above our own self , our passions, desires, will, and to love Him above any worldly possession like money, what it can buy, opportunities it can afford, authority it can give or that can give it (Luke 14:25-33).
Jesus calls us. by His example, to a loving relationship with God where all that will matter to us is to do His will and honour Him with all He has blessed us with starting with our lives and self-will (Matthew 7:21).
Read this short article by Zac Poonen: https://www.cfcindia.com/wftw/love-is-the-fuel-for-the-christian-life
Let Us Pray:
Abba Father, I thank You for loving me and calling me into replicating this love.
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