“It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?”
~Galatians 5:13-15 (MSG)
Why are we as Christians supposed to focus so much on love? There are several different reasons that we are given in the Bible. One of them is that the world will know we are His disciples by our love. The passage above in Galatians is pretty enlightening too. Paul says here that everything we know about God's word is summed up in "love each other as yourself." Paul makes another interesting statement…
"The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love."
~Galatians 5:6
The "new law" is not a bunch of rules that we keep to show how religious we are, it is simply, "love one another".
~ Jeri Heintz
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