I am Love

... to save life or destroy it?

1 [a]Again he entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. 2 They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. 3 He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here before us.” 4 Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent. 5 Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored. 6 [b]The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.-Mark3:1-6

God is Love. Our Creator is God. Therefore, we are created through love, in love and out of love. We are created after God's image and likeness, and love. We are primarily created to love and be loved also. Life should be about loving others and God. But God is so generous, that apart from love, we are blessed with more - intelligence, free will, conscience, artistry, and so much more. When our blessing is coupled with love, what a happy place the world will be! But, the hearts and minds of mankind are easily deceived. We burden ourselves with much Do's and Don'ts that we can even no longer remember why they even exist right from the start. We burden ourselves to be perfect citizens, but we lost the essence of why we are doing it. Jesus is reminding us all of Love. Laws without love is nothing. Perfection without love is nothing.

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