Always Follow This Two Commandments

God gave Moses ten commandments for his nation, the Israelites, to follow and to help them return to His divine way of life and stop idolatry. Jesus recognized these commandments as an important covenant and when asked about them affirmed that in the two first commandments all the Law and the Prophets are contained. These commandments are related to our heart, soul, mind and strength as the elements of our human nature that need to be surrendered to God in their entirety to properly love our Father in heaven and our brothers and sisters on this earth. A quick look at the sad state of our world shows that, as humankind, we have not been able to follow these two commandments to honour the law and the prophets as Jesus intended for us. Jesus said that whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus Christ came not to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to fulfill them through His new covenant. And He did. He introduced a new standard of righteousness. Are we doing to others what we want them to do to us? Where are our hearts, souls, minds, and strength? Loving God and our neighbours as ourselves? Or entrapped and diminished by the darkness of this world?