GOD'S LAW AIMS AT OUR HEART

In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave His followers instructions about life in the kingdom of God. Jesus reveals that God’s law always directed at our hearts and for the respect of our neighbour. Jesus looks to the heart, not just the external behaviour. His law leads His people into true righteousness and true happiness. 

Our anger, making judgments about others, using harmful words and insulting are verbally violate the intention of the law where we kill people’s spirit.  This is certainly that “… if your virtue goes no deeper that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven…,” (Mt 5: 20). 

Jesus fulfills and transforms us so that the Holy Spirit may write the law in our hearts and we may be enabled to keep it for our path to life and happiness. Keeping the Ten Commandments is our way of proving to God that we are grateful, obedient and loyal to him. True and loyal service of God therefore begins in the heart.

“They are happy who follow God’s law.” (Ps 118)