Love Is An End In Itself
We get it wrong when we think that there is some other goal outside of love. When Jesus was asked what the most important commandment was, what the most important thing in the world was, he answered quite simply that it is love. He said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself." Those things go together, for Jesus, in a really important way. You can't really love God without loving people. And you can't really love people unless you love the one who created them, the one who is in them. Now, the problem is that we often put other things, other goals, other outcomes above the outcome of love. When Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself," he also said "there's no law against these things." another way of saying that is "there's no law above these things." If you find yourself having to break the command to...


