God is Love

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Our God the Almighty is unchanging and He declared it when He said ´I am who I am´ and that He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow yet some say there is a difference between the God of the Old testament and the new testament. They say that in the Old testament God was harsh while in the new testament He was more loving. But He is the same and has not changed a bit.

The ten commandments given to Moses at Mount Sinai by God in Exodus 20:1-17, are edicts of what we are not supposed to do because before the coming of Christ, our hearts were stony and were rebellious so as to guide our actions towards being obedient to and LOVING Him. The law was not an end unto itself and was not our way to salvation but due to our deadened hearts, it was meant to lead us to where God ultimately lead us through Jesus.

When Jesus came to earth, He summed the ten commandments up into two in Mark 12:28-31, ´One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, ¨Of all the commandments, which is the most important?¨ “The most important one,¨ answered Jesus, ¨is this: ´Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.¨ The first covers for the first four while the second for the last six.

God wants to have a relationship of love with us. He Loves us so much that in His divine wisdom He made a plan that involved sacrifice of His Son to redeem and make us his sons just as Paul tells us in Galatians 3:26 , ´You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus...´

How should we love the Lord our God, by trusting and obeying Him. To not love Him is to either outrightly hate Him by engaging in idolatry which ranges from actual worship of the devil or being indifferent with the pitiful claim that you believe God exists and that you are generally good, and that its all good and He will get it. But we are just deluding ourselves because salvation is by Grace through faith in Jesus Christ and not by works Ephesians 2:8-9.

But what is this love that God expects from us. The same kind that He has given us that was revealed by the Spirit through Paul reveals this to us in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, ´Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...´ God loves in this way and expects us to love our fellow man the same way.

Our disobedience hurts fellow man and not God. We should strive to be righteous which we can only attain in Christ by faith. God divine plan for our salvation is so mind boggling simple that it requires the mindset of a child, a believing mind. Through grace we received the promise of salvation, and even though His grace is boundless, it will not endure forever, for Christ awaits for the fullness of time before His enemies are put as a foot stool for Judgement.

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