Because LOVE compels me, I love God, my Creator, my Father. No one rates higher than He does.
Because LOVE compels me, the things of this world don't take me away from my Father's passionate affection for me.
Because LOVE compels me, I choose to honour God and who He is, with poetry of thanksgiving and praise.
Because LOVE compels me, I rest in God's peace.
Because LOVE compels me, I cherish the two people who, with God's LOVE, gave me life.
Because LOVE compels me, I want to love and support and encourage my neighbour.
Because LOVE compels me, I am faithful to my husband.
Because LOVE compels me, I want to work hard for the things I am given.
Because LOVE compels me, I want my word to mean something.
Because LOVE compels me, I am grateful and thankful and content with what God had given me.
Jesus came that we would be no longer ordered to obey, but compelled to LOVE.
Jesus came not only to show us that LOVE is stronger than obedience...
But He came so that His LOVE would be real in us.
His law is LOVE.
© Ruby Neumann
Poet's note:
I have read the Ten Commandments over and over again and still come away with a picture of the list of things God gave us to do, knowing full well that we couldn't do them. But He provided a way for us rise about the commandment of the law and walk in something much stronger than obedience.
