"The Prepared Heart" -2

As we look to the Scriptures to be a guide for our lives, then I believe that it is also fitting that they should also be a guide for our death. We know for example that Jesus spoke more about hell then He did about heaven; to which we are to notice that it was for our benefit that He did. It was not to point us to what we were headed into, but to point us to the only way to be saved from that which we were going to face. It is this direction of our turning that I am trying to point out in my explanation of our obedience to the law. For example; Jesus said that by love we would fulfill all of the Commandments; in so doing, He did not disregard the Commandments, but rather established the way in which they are to be kept. It is this level of preparation to our hearts that I am talking about; and that by His removing the actual burden of the law, that it is no longer our fear of not keeping them, but rather our new obligation to love, that freely we are able to keep them. This is the point which John makes in 1 John 4:7, "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love", because of the change that takes place in the heart of a Believer, in that we have a new heart that has been prepared to love. It is this prepared heart that we have been given that makes the law no longer grievous to us anymore, but rather, makes us free from the law because love will fulfill all that the law required of us. Consequently, it is our lack of love for God and each other that will cause us to trespass the law. Therefore, it is the law by which the nonbelievers shall be judged, but it is by love that we that are in Christ shall be judged. Furthermore, it will be by our misdirection in our turning that we shall realize what the real meaning of sin shall be: Missing the mark!!!