"Love? Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love" - Christian (Moulin Rouge)
Read Matthew 22:36-40
Here Jesus sums up all of the Law and all of the Prophets in two commands; love God, love your neighbors. Truly love is a many splendored thing. Notice that when Jesus talks about love and the Law he's not just summing it up, but he talks about love as if it's the engine that moves the Law. Love is the thing that brings everything together and propels us into our future, into our destiny.
Sometimes it's easy for us to read the Scriptures and disassociate anything having to do with the Law with Christianity, and so we disassociate anything having to do with the legalism of the Law. Just like the religious leaders of Jesus' day ran the risk of only being concerned with keeping the Law, so we can run the same risk in our culture.
Sometimes it's easy for us to get so focused on doing certain things, or keeping the Law that we miss the whole point. It's like we get so focused on the details that we forget why we're doing it. When we choose to live in the Law, we live within the confines of the Law. Yet when we allow ourselves to be motivated by love, we begin to move beyond the confines of the Law into a world of abundance.
Today pray that you would not see the world as things that you have to do, but things that you get to do.
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