“Father, they
are your gift to me. I wish that where I
am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me…”
It would really be
unthinkable if someone, with such great power, would suddenly abolish God’s Ten
Commandments. Imagine the chaos. Imagine the unimaginable – sins, in its
truest and purest form, reigning over the land, consuming every being, until
the generation we know now vanishes from this earth, completely.
This is the reason that even Jesus, who is
the greatest man that ever lived, did not even bother to abolish the law. And He has no intention to do such
thing. He came not to abolish, but to
fulfill.
And these laws are still valid today. And they will always be valid because they
are part of the natural law, the conditions necessary for human beings to live
together in society in peace and in justice.
We all are barbaric human beings – from the time Moses received the law
and up to now. We need laws in order to
effect order and put the barbarism in our hearts in check.
And how did Jesus fulfilled them? He tells us that love is the fulfillment of
the law. Not killing will not fulfill
the law – if you see hungry children dying everyday, and doing nothing about
it.
Not stealing will not fulfill the law – if
you steal the future from these children by doing nothing to alleviate their
plight.
We are all commanded to love God, our self
and our neighbor. And it is the indissoluble bond between the love of God and
love of self and neighbor that is the key to making love the fulfillment of the
law.
Let us pray +
Lord Jesus, You are the personification of
love and the fulfillment of the law. You
are the fullest expression of the love of God for us, and the fullest
expression of the human response to that love.
Teach us to follow Your example and be the fulfillment in the life of
others. Amen +
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
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