YOU MUST KNOW FIRST....

My bro fr. TX fambam, Jasper, wrote:

"Jesus says in John 14:15 that those who love him will obey his commands. Most Christians today think that if they are able to love God, then they can follow the ten commandments and the rest of the 600+ laws of the old testament. What they fail to realize is two things.

First, love cannot generate spontaneously within us unless we are loved first. Allowing God to love you first is how you are able to love him back, not by focusing on how you can love God but on how much God loves you. Secondly, God's commandments in the new testament is to love (Mark 12:30-31). So by loving, you are fulfilling his commandments. It was not the mosaic laws that were written into our hearts, it was the commandment of love written in our hearts."

Thank you so much, Jasper for your insight about God and his love. You must know if you are under the law or under the spirit. You must know that God loves you first and you to allow it BEFORE you could love him back.

Mark 12:30-31 (NIV) ³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' ³¹The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."