- Matthew 22:36-40 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus said, “Love God with all your heart, will, and life. Also, love your brothers with all your heart, will, and life.” It is ‘a victory of love.’ In order to win in , you must understand ‘love’ well. It must be a love that is sincere and absolute, a love that lasts from beginning to the end. If you find fault in this or that, you cannot love. If you love, you cannot see any of the weaknesses or the negatives, only. God is a Being of love like this. There are individual wars, wars among family members, nations, and the world because there is no love. If they had, there would’ve been no way that a fight could have occurred.
God’s purpose is to continue acting on ‘love’ and to ultimately make the world into ‘a world of love.’ You must be ‘victorious in love’ in order to receive ‘the power to love’ from God. You must be ‘victorious in love’ in order to receive God’s love. and to become God’s counterpart of love. This is what it means to receive the privilege to love God.
There is such a thing as ‘the privilege to love God.’ Adam and Eve should have obeyed God’s Word after hearing it and they should have loved God, but they were seduced by Satan and therefore, stopped at the level of physical love. As a result, they lost ‘the privilege to love God.’In other words, the purpose God had in creating human beings and calling Adam and Eve was to have human beings become those who would love Him, but the fall of Adam and Eve shattered God’s Will. Since they lost the privilege to love God, imagine the torment they felt since they loved Satan, demons, and immorality instead. You must love God. Then, you will feel joy and happiness. God proclaimed through Jesus, “Love God with all your heart, will, and life.” He said that this was ‘the greatest commandment of God.’ He also said, “There’s another commandment, and it is this. Love your brothers with all your heart, will, and life.” He said that these two commandments are the ‘first commandments.’ God spoke clearly through Jesus.
God’s ultimate purpose is ‘love.’ The reason why God made the universe, all of creation, and people was for ‘love.’ A creator or maker always has a purpose for making something. He did not make it for hate, money, beauty, nor to make the people just live amongst themselves only to die later. God’s purpose is ‘love.’ He made us for. You can know all that God has done to make this happen by looking at the Bible. Everything in the Bible is ‘about love.’ God has helped us, cared for us, remembered us, and has always been with us because He loves us. Also, God looked after the person who acted according to His Will with extra care and carried out history through him.
‘A person who couldn’t win in love‘ is someone who couldn’t win in life. You must ‘win at love.’ Then, you will receive all the blessings of life. ‘A victory in love’ is an eternal victory. ‘Love’ covers a ‘multitude of sins.’ God covered ‘our sins’ because He loves us. Covering our sins means He ‘forgave us.’‘Love’ brings salvation. You receive salvation through ‘love.’Truth ‘came by loving God.’ And salvation is achieved by putting that Word of truth into action.You have to receive the grace of love and love perfectly and completely.
If love shatters, Heaven, life, hope, and the things [we] wish for all shatter. If you don’t have love, you receive ‘loveless judgment,’ and if you don’t have mercy, you receive ‘merciless judgment.’ I hope that you will treat one another with ‘love’ today, tomorrow, and always.