Love
Deuteronomy 27:1, “Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.”
For forty years Moses had led the children of Israel in the wilderness. Now he was an old man; Moses was tired and worn out both physically and emotionally. He knew that because of his disobedience to God that he was not going to enter himself into the land of Promise.
In one of his last acts on this earth Moses prepares the Israelites, his children, to live a Godly life without him. He reminds them that although he may be gone the promise of God remains for those who follow His commands. They are not reliant upon him, but must keep the Law themselves to be made right with God. That is what a Godly father does he prepares his children for the future that awaits them.
Jesus Christ came to this earth as God in the flesh, and He like Moses spent His years in ministry leading people to the Promised Land, but unlike Moses He assured His children that He was going before them to prepare a place for them. When Jesus told the disciples how they would get to Heaven He said in John 14:1-3, “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.”The 3 years that Jesus was on this earth in ministry He spent preparing His followers on how to live a life that was pleasing to God and would lead them on to a successful life after He had departed. Jesus told His followers, and us, that love is the answer. When He was asked by one of the Pharisees about the greatest, most important, command of God Jesus replied with love. Matthew 22:36, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, ” ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’38″This is the great and foremost commandment.39″The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’40″On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
As the loving Father Jesus Christ prepared us for a life without His physical presence and showed us how to get to the future that He prepared for us. The Promised Land that awaits us can only be reached when we love as He loves!!!!!!!!!!
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Father, I thank You for loving me so much that You sent Your Son, and I ask that You help me to love others in the way that You loved me. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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