I said that I would be writing little devotionals. This is the second one since I said it. I am so very busy.

I went to a Christian Camp this summer, you may know it, Ironwood in California. There I learned a lot about God and what he would have me be.

In Matthew 22:34-40 we are given the very essence of what a Christian is. Christ says that to boil down the entire old testament in to two statements is simply to Love God with every fiber of your being and to love others like we adore ourselves. Since the New Testament adds no new law to the book of the law, only explains it further, Christ's statement is profound. Not only did he sum up the entire Christian life, but he did it by sharing the motivation for following the law. In this statement he is not saying that the law is no longer to be followed. He is simply stating that in order to follow the law as it was meant to be followed, we must love. Interesting...