“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!” Galatians 5:14-15
Having been set free from bondage under the law, we love God and our neighbor, and willingly serve them. St. Paul wrote to the Romans: “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom. 13:10). If we love our neighbor as we love ourselves, we will do no evil to our neighbor. The same is true of our attitude toward God. If we love Him, we will have no other gods, we will honor and glorify His name, and we will gladly hear and learn His Word.
O gracious and merciful God, You have freed me from the curse and condemnation of the law in Christ Jesus. Grant that I, in return, truly love You and my neighbor and gladly and willingly obey Your commandments. Amen.
[Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.]