James 2: 8  "I you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well'."

John put it this way:   "A new commandant  I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."  John 13:34.

The other disciples said it in similar ways.  But one thing is sure, Christ changed the way we look at law. Keeping 10 rules no longer cuts it.   That's just a starting place.    We have to love others in exactly the same way Jesus loved us.  It has to come from within our hearts.

You can't possibly do it unless you have been changed.  Even when you have been changed it is sometimes difficult.  Some people just aren't lovable.  But we are not given a choice.  Love and "Like" are two different things.

Love is not a feeling, it is a behavior.  It doesn't matter how we feel, what matters is what we do.

James nails this down in James 2: 14a  "What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works…."

Faith, followed by works is the natural result of being changed by Jesus.

There are lots of ways to love others.  Sometimes chicken soup will do.  But sometimes it takes writing a check.  Other times a person just needs someone to listen to them.

Thanks for listening to to all the stuff I've written.