Mark 12, con't

"What commandment is the foremost of all? Jesus answered, 'The foremost is: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord 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." v. 28-31

Well, I guess, that just about says it. Tough though, huh? Interesting what I learned about the ten commandments: "The rabbis had determined that there were 613 commandments contained in the Pentateuch, one for each letter of the Ten Commandments. -Are you kidding me! LOL - Of the 613, 248 were seen as affirmative and 365 as negative. Those laws were also divided into heavy and light categories,, with the heavy laws being more binding than the light ones. The scribes and rabbis, however, had been unable to agree on which were heavy and which were light." John MacArthur

Seriously, what bondage!

So much of the world is striving for peace, reaching out to one another. However, the world is forgetting the prerequisite for loving one another; to love our God with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength. You can't achieve the one without the other.