God is Love

Psa 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psa 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.


Commandments.

A general commands an army.
A president commands a country.
We command our households.

Very few people, if any, truly live without any rules it's just not feasible.

From the time we are young we are given rules. In fact at the youngest of age we are not allowed to eat our fill or we'd eat until we were sick to our stomach. We are taught not to touch things that might injure us even when we want to because we're just too young to comprehend that we are in any danger. As we grow the understanding of what danger is becomes something we learn and yet stop for a moment and imagine a life where a parent didn't stop their child from doing things but let them do whatever they desire. How long do you really think that child would live? I'm not talking a parent neglecting their child, they'd feed, bath, clothe their child but outside of that they'd let the child do as the child pleased. So tell me how long do you think the child would live before that child did something to hurt themselves?

A parent protects their child sometimes even a neglectful parent will protect the child so that they are kept from harming themselves. Abusive parents even keep their children alive, mostly, and before anyone thinks I'm standing up for abusive parents I'm not, I think they are the lowest of the low and Jesus said this…


Mat 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


The point I'm trying to make here is that as a rule, most parents protect their children in thousands of ways they themselves aren't even aware of, they do it because it's the right thing to do. Keep a baby warm, keep a child well fed, keep harmful things out of reach, and so on.

We don't call them commands because that sounds too stringent and overbearing, in fact we think it very archaic when we hear the words… 'I command you.' If someone said that to you, 'I command you…' you'd probably laugh at them because it's so preposterous. Yet we are giving commands and getting them all the time. We grow up following the commands of our parents or disobeying those commandments and when we follow them everything usually goes well for us, and when we disobey things go bad for us, we are punished. We understand this concept- we grow up with it, most everyone grows up with it and yet when it comes to our Creator giving us commands we somehow want to look at them as being more restrictive and binding, more geared towards punishing us before we even do something wrong. People have taken those commandments and torn them apart. They've separated the ten commandments of God and saved the ones they agree are generally good all around, and they've tossed aside the ones they find silly and not really applicable to people in the real world.


Our Creator did not leave us unattended. Our Creator did not neglect us. Our Creator is not an abuser. Our Creator gave us every single command we'd ever need to follow in order to live our lives safely. We just have forgotten, or never really knew the truth of the matter. Those commands were given to children from their Heavenly Father- all ten of them.

Psa 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psa 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.


Read them, go on, go to Exodus 20 and read those ten commandments from our LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER. Read them and think about the love God has for us, think about the love Jesus has for us as you read them and take your time, find the LOVE in those commands because they are ALL about love, and love is protecting, caring, kind, giving…you know what love is…God is love.

1Jn 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

By the grace of God…more tomorrow!

In His amazing LOVE!

Amen.