Tim Hegg on love

“What is more, if we are to understand our Master’s words, we must realize what He meant by using the word “love.” All too often in our modern era, “love” is understood as an emotion, and surely emotion played a part in Yeshua’s understanding of the concept of “love.” However, in the Scriptures, the concept of “love” is far more weighted on the side of “faithful actions” or “loyalty to one’s word and promises.” For instance, in the Shema (Deut 6:4f; 11:13f), the command to “love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” is immediately defined in terms of how one is to love: “These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart…,” meaning that the commandments of God are to govern one’s actions and deeds. Keeping the commandments is therefore the manner in which one loves God. This is explicitly stated by Yeshua and His Apostles: If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. (John 14:15)” – Tim Hegg

Why We Keep Torah. Ten Persistent Questions. p.120

No other way to be wise

“There is no other way of being truly wise than by fixing all our thoughts on Christ alone.” – John Calvin

“I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery — Christ. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.” Colossians 2:2-3

What a resolution

“47. Resolved, to endeavor to my utmost to deny whatever is not most agreeable to a good, and universally sweet and benevolent, quiet, peaceable, contented, easy, compassionate, generous, humble, meek, modest, submissive, obliging, diligent and industrious, charitable, even, patient, moderate, forgiving, sincere temper; and to do at all times what such a temper would lead me to. Examine strictly every week, whether I have done so. Sabbath morning. May 5,1723.” – Jonathan Edwards