Love And Commandments

For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.  Exodus 20:5-6

When a subject is on my mind for the morning message, I like to do word searches in the Bible to find where it first occurs. When it comes to mercy the first occurrence is Genesis 19:19, but we know that is far from the first time that mercy happened. Hardly had Adam and Eve hidden themselves when the mercy and love of the Lord God was already in evidence. A sign does not rise up in the Garden of Eden stating 'Mercy Here!' with flashing neon letters. But we can easily see by what God could have done to Adam, Eve, and the Serpent that He did not do by His love and mercy. 

So, on to keeping the commandments! Which, our Lord Jesus gave the bestest method of keeping them by two measures of love - one for the Lord our God and another for our neighbors as ourselves. How much of a measure? Give it all the love ya got! 

Love to you in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Bucky