He
wants commitment.(Matthew
10:37,38).to a better life for
yourself and others by following
the
things of love and for this He increasingly reveals greater insight
and wisdom:.Micah
6:8 "He has showed you O man what is good and what does the Lord require
of you but to
do justly and to love mercy and
to walk humbly with your God?"
He went flat out for us,
because it was in His heart to do so. How hard it must have been for Him
to give up His life:.Matthew
26:39. I mean He had it all. He did miracles.
He was in great health. In His early 30's, He gave it all up for us, because
He saw our future:.1Corinthians
2:9.
He knew the joy of eternity:.John
15:11; 17:1,13. Emmanuel
the Christ is more than
Lord.
He is our dear spiritual
brother, who has made
us equals because we are in Him:.Ephesians
2:6.
He was willing to give it
all up for a reason why He came in the
first place:.Luke
22:42,43. His purpose was to make much
available to us.
One of those things was so
we could think as he does.(Matthew
22:37-40), with compassion,
love
and concern for others:.John
15:8-14; 1Corinthians 2:16.
Without high spiritual qualities, there is no long term purpose for humanity.
For today,
what are the teachings, the laws,
the commandments the Creator wants us to live by for our own good:.1John
4:21 "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God
loves
his brother also.(Matthew
22:39)."
And, why love?.Romans
13:10 "Love.works
no ill to his neighbor.therefore
love
is the fulfiling of the law."
With these two great teachings
in Matthew 22:36-40, Creator
shows what His mind toward us is and that is being first of a loving and
kind mind:.John
15:17. Parameters
of.the two
great commandments show how our Creator thinks:.1John
4:8,16.
His heart is for us to be
compassionate,
caring,
kind
and loving towards others,
being likeminded in love with others.(Romans
15:5;
Philippians 2:2; Ephesians
4:13).and
progressing towards
His
fulness with the golden rule as our guide:.Matthew
22:37-40.
The commandment of love has
no comparison with the highly regulatory, restrictive and impossible to
follow Mosaic Law, which had the commandments
and two others.(totaling.12
commandments), along with it:.2John
1:6.
The Mosaic Law produced
the grace and forgiveness of the Creator in the lives of humans back then,
as it was
virtually impossible to follow and because it placed everyone into
a state of sin, needing a balancing event which occurred each year:.Hebrews
10:1-6. In other words, without the grace and forgiveness of our Creator
they had no hope.
He does
not want you to come under what came to be known as a."yoke
of bondage".
He wants you to know that
the
Creator, the Father is in love with you.(John
16:27;
17:20-26).and
that our lives now are in His most capable hands thanks to His Father's
wonderful plan:.Ephesians
1:6,12,14 "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has
made us accepted in the beloved...That we should be to the praise of his
glory, who first trusted in Christ...unto the praise of his glory."
Creator always was forgiving.
He always wanted a relationship with us individually:.2Chronicles
7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.".The
Creator also does not want you to have to continue to go through the agony
of what caused you to need forgiveness, perhaps again
and again and where things could get worse:.Luke
11:23-28.
He wants you to have the
joy
He has.
Christ also wants you to
overcome
and gain a great reward, to grow up into Him:.Ephesians
4:13-15 "Till we all come in the unity of the faith and
of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect.(original
'brought to its end, finished; wanting nothing necessary to completeness;
full grown, adult, of full age, mature').man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.(how?
through study, prayer and by believing.what
the Creator-God thinks about you).
That we henceforth.(from
now on).be
no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind
of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in wait to deceive, But
speaking
the truth in love may grow up into him.(Philippians3:14).in
all things which is the head even Christ.(comprehend
what
Christ means)."
By continuing to grow up:.Ephesians
4:15. If we are are saved, why still grow? That's so we don't fall
away and increase in spirituality, gaining a better reward:.Luke
8:12-14; 2Peter 3:17.
2Corinthians
10:5;
Matthew 23:11.shows
it's better not be thinking about being righteous in your own eyes, but
to have others' concerns at heart. You can do this by thinking about His
righteousness that He imputed
to you and by thinking and believing.(knowing
for certain).that
Emmanuel
the Christ is indeed
in
you.
You will become different,
better, more alive. Without that, works.tend
to exalt the
self. When you take on the attributes
of a servant in caring and kindness to others, as the example of the
good Samaritan shows, attitude toward life improves.
Problems however.(the
tests
and trials that we have, both of circumstance
{because we are in the collective
consciousness} and of our own making, which contribute
also to the collective consciousness, aka
mass mind).still
come along.(Matthew
6:34).as
they are used for character
development:.Proverbs
3:11,12 "For whom the Lord loves he corrects.(as
a child learning to balance, steer and ride a bicycle, who needs a hand
to keep him upright), even as a father
the son in whom he delights.".(the
Creator has set up an invisible
universal spiritual law so that we may learn to improve as we go through
life).Psalms
94:12 "Blessed is the man whom you chasten
O Lord and teach him out of your law."
Job
5:17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects, therefore despise
not the chastening of the Almighty."
Psalms
144:15 "Happy is that people, that is in such a case; yea, happy is
that people, whose God is the Lord."
1Peter
3:14.
Hebrews
12:5,6 "And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you
as unto children, My son, despise
not the chastening.('chastening'
here means 'teaching', 'instruction', 'training').of
the Lord, nor faint
when you are rebuked
of him....For whom the
Lord loves he chastens.(original
is 'trains' or corrects to improve).and
scourges.(original
is 'causes
calamities').every
son whom he receives. If you endure.(original
also means 'take it patiently').chastening.(original
'trains' or
training situations), God deals with
you as with sons.(has
set the universe up so we learn from what
we sow we reap). For what son is
he whom the father chastens not? But if you be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers.(the
Creator is the same with all of us:.Malachi
3:6 "For I am the Lord, I change not......"),
then are you bastards and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of
our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection.(serving
God in the spirit, meaning, when our spirit has the same loving nature
He has and expresses it in good works toward others, we are aligned with
His purpose for the universe and all in it).unto
the Father of spirits and live? For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers
of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous,
but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which
hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet, lest
that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed."
Galatians
3:26 "For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Emmanuel."