Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The main commands

Generally, Jesus' main message seems to be to repent (there's a lot to unpack there).  His most important commands sum up a repentant life:


1) Love God with all my heart, mind and strength 
2) Love my neighbors as myself.  


Beyond these, there are a lot of more specific commands I should obey - as long as I obey because of love for him.  Not for pride, guilt, power or money.  My love for Him is only because he loved me first.

I'm back

OK.  It's high time this blog got a jump start.  I am entirely inadequate to address this topic, but here goes anyway.  Honestly, this is a selfish blog to facilitate my own processing of Jesus' raw commands, or as raw as I can recognize them to be.  Hopefully by thinking through Jesus' commands, it will become increasingly common for me to obey them.