Love and Obedience

Jesus left heaven to come here and die a slow, agonizing death for the purpose of redeeming fallen mankind from everything that is contrary to the same love that sent him here. There is no excuse whatsoever for anyone to not "love [their] neighbor as themselves." None at all. I can personally attest to the fact that the power of the Gospel of Christ both imparts the love of God into the human spirit, and cleanses the heart from everything that is unlike that same love (Rom. 5:5; I Jn. 3:3). I'm just another man that Jesus died for, so that means that the same Gospel will do the same thing for anyone who truly believes. Only slothfulness, negligence, and being downright hateful prevents anyone from living in the capacity of loving their neighbor as themselves. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you" (Jn. 15:12). He loved us by leaving the splendor of heaven to die a cruel death so that we could be redeemed from the garbage dump of sin and be able to love one another likewise.

Keeping the Lord's commandment is not a hard thing to do unless we are slothful and negligent. Trust me when I say there will be no excuses accepted on the day of judgment. Jesus made the way, and it's up to us to take that way. "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal" (Mat. 25:41-46). I think that says it.