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Love & Righteousness

by Julius King Kwedhi God is love. And the greatest commandment stems from that staggering truth, the command to love. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and with all your might. The second greatest command is like the first, to love your neighbour just as you love yourself. This sums up the whole law and the prophets. This command is the central theme of our do's and don'ts. It is so central and magnificent to the extent that if you do not love, if you do not have the unconditional, unfailing and all-satisfying Love of God commanding and motivating all that you do, then you will amount to what the Bible calls  "nothing."  This is so to the extent that you can even give up your life for another, even in an act of being killed on their behalf, but if that  love  is absent then all the toil and labour done literally amounts to nothing. He is saying, that it is possible for a person to give himself away, to give his body to be burned, and