Matthew 22.37-40

³⁷Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Two general and very significant outcomes define the ways the Biblical worldview comes to expression.

Love for God and for our neighbors are the indicators that we are on course in our Biblical worldview. These two outcomes are expressed in a wide range of ways, in all our relationships, roles, and responsibilities.

Love is not simply an emotion, and, within the parameters of the Biblical worldview, we are not free to define love in terms merely agreeable to us. The true nature of love is defined by our Biblical vision, developed through the disciplines prescribed in God’s Word, and proven in all our words and deeds.

And God’s Law, as Jesus indicated, is the starting-point for learning about true love.

The Law of God puts down the footprint for our Biblical vision, the disciplines we require in order to lay hold on the vision, and the ways that vision comes to expression in our everyday lives. If we want to have a true Biblical worldview we must begin where God and His Word do, at the beginning.

And the beginning of the Biblical worldview is to found in the writings of Moses, the Law of God.

Act: As you understand it, what are some of the key components of a Biblical view of love? Why is such love so difficult to achieve? Talk with a Christian friend about these questions.

T. M. Moore

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