My desire is to live a
lifestyle that loves and serves others. The greatest commandment is to love God and then love others. When you live a life of love every other
commandment is followed. If you love
your brother you won’t steal from him, won’t lie, you won’t commit adultery, etc.
So many times I try to work on one commandment,
but then I fail. To be honest, I lie, I put other gods before the true God, and
I covet my friend’s things all the time, I’m a sinner. I try to follow the commandments, but so many
times I break them. So many times I feel like I can’t ever do anything the way
God wants me to.
Lucky for me, God is a forgiving God and
He like to help us when we ask. So God
gave me a revelation on this topic. Without love there is nothing. If I don’t love before I try to follow a commandment
I will fail. That is why the first and
second commandments call us to love. If we don’t start by loving, everything
else we do before is done in vain. The
beginning of everything is to love God, love others and then serve them.
When we begin with the first commandment
it’s impossible not to follow the second, third, fourth, etc. If you love your brother you aren't going to steal from him. There isn’t any point to begin with the
fourth or fifth commandment if you don’t have love. You can keep it up for a little while, but
then things start to fall apart and you have to start all over.
God also gave me 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, the
chapter in the bible on love. This version
of the passage really spoke to me this week and has given me a new passion to loving
and serving Him and others!
"This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience;
it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive, it is neither anxious
to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish
advantage. It is not touchy; it does not
keep account of evil or gloat over wickedness of other people. On the contrary,
it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no
end to its trust, no fading of its hope, it can out last anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands
when all else has fallen."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
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