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Read the Bible through:
AM – Job 15-17 : PM – Acts 13:14-52
FULFILLING THE LAW OF LOVE
Galatians 5:14-15
14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Read the Bible through:
AM – Job 15-17 : PM – Acts 13:14-52
FULFILLING THE LAW OF LOVE
Galatians 5:14-15
14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Paul’s legalistic critics claimed that salvation by grace would lead to a life of sin. They insisted that only the law would motivate people to live godly lives. Paul’s answer was that the law of love fulfills the law and that love demands more than law. Love has a higher demand because love grows out of relationships.
Law can only define minimum behavior below which we must not sink, but love expects and enables much more. For example, law can make stealing a sin and a crime; but law cannot motivate and empower me to love my neighbor. Law can forbid adultery as a serious sin, but only love provides the way of self-giving that enables marriage to last and to grow.
The law can condemn acts of prejudice, but it cannot change attitudes. Only love can do that. Each of us must ask, “Am I living by the limited demands of law or by the higher expectations of love?”
Father, help me to drink so deeply of Your love that my life overflows with love.
