The greatest form of sharing oneself, a deep emotion, mostly abuse with unbounded-carnal humans yet the Creator defines what Love is. Aside from mercy and peace, He surely added justice on it so we would clearly see it as mortals and reflect love, who He is in and from heaven's righteous sense.

Exodus 20: The 10 Commandments

20 And God spoke all these words:

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me. (First commandment)

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (2nd)

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. (3rd)

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (4rth)

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. (5th)

13 “You shall not murder. (6th)

14 “You shall not commit adultery. (7th)

15 “You shall not steal. (8th)

16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. (9th)

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Source

The first four commandments is about loving/honoring God, the next are for loving/honoring thy brother and sister, summarized by Christ into two "new commandments",

LOVING GOD. If we love God then we'll have no other gods before Him. We'll not make idols. We'll not make His name in vain. We'll remember to keep the holy Sabbath day.

LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS. If we love our neighbors we will honor our parents. We will not slander others (to Jesus, it's not only physical murder but spiritual killing as well that include malicious gossips-envying-slandering etc.) We will not commit adultery (again to Jesus even looking on a woman or man with lustful desire is adultery, thank God He offered to us the most innocent blood to cleanse & redeem us from these acts). Loving our neighbors mean we won't steal. Loving them would mean we will have second thought falsy witnessing against them. Loving our neighbors mean we will not covet what belongs to them.

Ha! What a realization about the opposition of love. So this means that when I adore and love idols over God, it's not love. Not keeping at least one day as Sabbath is not love 😳. Etc. Dishonoring thy parents is not love (saying no respectfully doesn't mean you don't dishonor them), physical/spiritual murder is not love (malicious gossiping, slandering, scoffing, mocking God is not love), lusting most not to your husband or wife is not love, not God. Stealing is not love, false testimony is not love, coveting what belongs to others is not love. By this He is giving us the chance to learn who He is and how to do love on earth, molding the Christ in us. Thank you Father for tutoring us.

Who would have said that love can be done without boundary? Yes God is limitless and He is love, yet the feeling to perform and express it by human has beautiful corners, set up by our Creator to give orders that His creations can follow to live in alignment to His plans, not in chaos.

Mark 12:29-31

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Source

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

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Only if we know that love doesn't mean love them all at once (my God are you thinking you don't have enough time to be in many relationships all the time?), dishonoring what belong to others etc. etc. Honor God above all (therefore dishonoring Him & idoltary is not love at all? Yet He still allows us to do it sometimes & accept us back if we were misled, what grace this is!). This is love, God's.

I hoped that you will have the strength to always ask for the guidance of the spirit of discernment to know love's boundary. May His wisdom in abundance pours out in your heart that obey & listen.

Here's cheering on the matured love in you, letting out the Christ in you,

SuperJulalaine 💜

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