Rationality and logic, wisdom and knowledge are wonderful things to have, but you can have all of those things and still come to naught. But the attribute that is necessary to make rational thought profitable is love.

It does not matter that which you have done to displease the Lord, because there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. There is only the admonition to start following Jesus’ commandment today. And Jesus’ commandment is to love one another.

It has taken me 60 years, but I have finally figured it out. If you want to be exalted in heaven, love someone sacrificially here. And the best place to start is at home, with your husband or wife.

We that plan to go into the Kingdom of Heaven need to remain vigilantly on watch for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ at all times, as He is coming at an hour that we do not expect.

If we believe in Jesus Christ, meaning, if we believe that Jesus Christ actually existed, that Jesus Christ is a Wonderful Counselor and that we should do as Jesus Christ instructs us, that Jesus Christ was sent by God, and that Jesus Christ is actually God in the flesh, our primary act of belief in Him is fulfilling His commandment to love one another.

The Bible teaches that that there are two aspects to faithfulness. One can be unfaithful to a spouse by having sex with someone other than the spouse, or one can be unfaithful to a spouse by depriving them without consent for a time.

Jesus Christ has paid our penalty, so we don’t have to continue to find someone to blame for our circumstances and we don’t have to continue to justify that which we do by making it someone else’s fault.

Jesus Christ did not come to condemn us, but He did come to admonish us stop listening to the foolishness of the devil and disobeying the instructions of God.