How can keeping God's commandments show love for all His children? This only works if we keep those commandments out of love and not legal observance and if we keep them all. The two greatest are to love God with everything we have and to love our neighbor as ourselves andes Jesus loved us. There are times when we as Christians forget this and go for the more legalistic view. Legalistically keeping the Sabath and holding it over others is not loving so is it really keeping His commandments?
If we start by loving God, getting to know Him, spending time with Him, having a relationship with Him, we should come to love all His creation. By loving His creation without whole hearts we will want to keep His commandments out of love for God and His creation and it will not be burdensome.
If we try to keep His commandments without coming to know and to love Him it will be a great burdon to keep them, because we will not love His creation. This is the key, we do not obey God out of fear of punishment, but out of Love. Our God is Love. This is the only way that it is possible without becoming bitter and angry.
Those who keep the God's commandments out of fear or legalistically and not out of love will see those laws as slavery, keep them from what they want to really do out of spite. When we see God's love and know God's love for us and love Him in return sin loses its glamour. We want to love God and all He created with same love we are given.
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