Are we complying with the first commandment?

I think some people don’t even know which one that is. If they did, they would probably be putting it into practice. Perhaps the ones who decide to leave “any religion issue” for the last minute might think it’s time to do give it some attention now that so many are announcing we are at the final times. They might think now is the right moment to obey it, but if they don’t know which one it is. . .

Some may think that since God is able to forgive a sinful life at the “last minute”, as He did to the criminal at the cross, it would be easier to not worry on that matter until later on. Although, we’ll never know if we’ll arrive to that “later”, as it happened to the 10 year old who died at the Arizona shooting last year. There’s a saying in Spanish: Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today.  Because “time” is God’s and we will never know which is to be our last moments until He decides when it is to be for us.  I think it’s wiser to be prepared at any time in case He decides to call us to His presence and ask us “How did you use the time I gave you?” we would have some kind of answer. There’s no problem with the children God calls, Jesus himself said: “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:14RSV) The ones who have to answer for these little ones would be the parents who do not do what it is asked of us: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he’s old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6). None of the adults are excluded from the coming interview for according to our answers, so will be our reward. Jesus himself said: Behold, I am coming soon bringing my recompense, to repay EVERYONE for what he has done. (Revelation 22:12). Even though we don’t know how soon that will be, why not find out from the source itself so nobody can tattle-tattle on us.

And if we educate ourselves by reading God’s word daily, we will then know the first commandment. Jesus said it: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:37-39).

In the month we celebrate LOVE, let’s remember the One who first loved us, the unmerited ones. If we are able to comply with the first and great commandment, the second and any other are consequent. Remembering always what Peter, apostle of Christ said: Above all keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. (I Peter 4:8 NASB)