THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW IS LOVE

THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW IS LOVE


There USED to be
A LINE in a song
That read:


“WHAT the world needs NOW=
Is love-SWEET LOVE”


That was NEVER so more TRUE=
Than today=WHEN someone tried to
Kill another person=
Over their politics


Jesus was LOVE=is love=and
FOREVER will be love


We NEED him=we need LOVE-
MORE than ever today


“........for the letter
BRINGS death
But the SPIRIT=
GIVES LIFE” 2 Corinthians 3:6


“THIS is the covenant
I will ESTABLISH
With the people of Israel


After that time
DECLARES the Lord


I will put my laws
In their minds
And WRITE them on their hearts


I will be THEIR GOD
And they will be MY PEOPLE” Hebrews 8:10


But obeying laws is
NEVER ENOUGH
We MUST attempt to be LOVE
As CHRIST was love
For EVERY human being


Christ was-IS-and forever WILL BE
Our destiny=AS LOVE IS


LOVE is the ANSWER
The SPIRIT of the law
Is love
The first two commandments
Are SUMMED up in
LOVING our MAKER
And loving EVERY other being


That IS who Christ was
And IS


The letter brings death
And is composed of words
But the Spirit is
COMPOSED of BREATH
And BRINGS LIFE


And NURTURES the LIFE of God
That is within us


You cannot kill PERFECT love
JESUS' life PROVED that


Love brings life


“You make KNOWN to me
The PATH of life


You fill me
With JOY in the presence
With eternal pleasures


At your right hand” Psalm 16:11


Our TASK
Is to BRING LIFE
To those we MINISTER


TO BRING HOPE


We MUST be filled with the SPIRIT
The Spirit that GIVES LIFE to the law


Don't get me wrong
We need RULES in this world
But rules alone don't do it


Just look at our prison system


We NEED to bring OUR LOVE
To this world-
Because our love WON'T FAIL


Just as Jesus' DIDN'T


MAY we LEARN to bring
The JOYFUL life and LOVE
Of the SPIRIT


To the brokenness of others


THAT will MAKE the difference
That we need


IN the name of JESUS=
OUR LORD


Robert P. Wallman
6-14-17




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B.