Ah, moral law what sacred bar whereby life’s wrong and
right is proved
Yet, may we never use it to make one feel judged rather
than loved
Love in its lesser form neglects to caution, rebuke and
advise
It claims to care but views a stumbling fellowman with half-shut
eyes
Yet, futile to deal with effect before identifying Cause
Where without love there is no merit in waving a book of laws
Forbid, before noon’s flying colours fold into the close
of day
That we with earnest heart do not forget to love enough
to pray
Lest while we criticize and point at dust-specks in
another’s tries
We overlook the beam that looms in our own fault-finding eyes
Forbid we speak of love and yet when push and shove turns
into grind
We fail to be its tender proof; not gentle, meek, patient
and kind
Then pray at break of day before we face time’s tides
that stilly roar
That we above all else seek grace and strive to love each
other more
© Janet Martin
Romans 3:19-20, 23-24
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law,
so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;
rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and all are justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
For the commandments, “You
shall not commit adultery,
You shall not murder,
You shall not steal,
You shall not covet,”
and any other commandment,
are summed up in this
word:
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Love does no wrong to a neighbor;
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And he said to him, “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 a second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matt.7:1-3
“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye,
but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?…
...and if you are not tired of reading
you might enjoy this post
by
Dr. Alan Snyder
