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Proclaims •o the World
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We are often asked how the Ten Commandments could be
a law of LOVE.
Here is a way of explaining what love means -- an
explanation wlU.ch moat Christiana probably never heard beforel
When the Eternal RULER of the universe first placed
man on this planet earth, all was perfect harmony and beauty.
There was PEACE. There waa PLENTY. There was BEAUTY. There
was every need and facility for HAPPINESS.
In order to make POSSIBLE for man continued peaceful,
happy, prosperous and joyful
e~stence,
the Eternal God designed
that all things operate according to fixed, inexorable LAWS. We
have the laws of physics and the laws of chem.tstry.
Then, of necessity, there is the great, fundamental,
invisible SPIRITUAL LAW wh1.ch regulates man's re·lationsh1.p with
his CREATOR, and man's relationship with fellow MAN. The pur–
pose o.f tlU.s inexorable SPIRITUAL law, like all of God's laws,
is to make possible man's HAPPINESS -- to bring man PEACE and
JOY -- to make life REALLY worth living!
When this spiritual ·law is broken, then
va~y1.ng
kinds
of unhappiness, fear and worry, strife and war, come
1n
varying
degrees AS THE PENALTY.
That great over-all SPIRITUAL law is just simply LOVEL
It is LOVE
1n
continual action. It is love manifest and ex–
pressed! It is love, first to God the CREATOR, in reverence,
adoration, gratitude and OBEDIENCE -- (bec.ause He is the SUPREME
CREATOR-RULER who alone KNOWS what is right for us and has power
to give it); and it is love, second to FELLOW MAN, expressed in
peaceableness, co-operation, service.
It
is a way that travels
the very OPPOSITE DIRECTION from greed, vanity, hate, strife,
or war.
This great SPIRITUAL LAW 1a a PRINCIPLE -- A WAY OF
LIFE -- it is an ATTITUDE
OF
MIND AND HEART. It is the correct
way to think, and to LIVE. It ia not merely moral principle
-- it is d1.vinely-set-1.n-motion SPIRITUAL LAW, and it operates
automatically and inexorably!