All you needs is Love.

All you need is Love. Romans 13:8-14.

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:8-1 (NKJV)

Love is a force that enables people to change who they are. If you practice love, you will be transformed and you will find yourself doing things that you never imagined you would do. The problem is that people sit love on the back seat, while they drive their life in a different direction. Yet Love in the driver's seat is what God wants.

It is funny that Paul starts with the word, "Owe." When applied to the opposite of love and joined with breaking God's law, it tells us that when we do something to others we are in debt for our trespass. The concept is deeply rooted in the struggle of evil against God.

The earth and all of the creation belong to God and evil is in a constant battle to destroy everything that God created. Every time a person does something to break a natural or a physical law of God they are sinning against God. Literally they are taking away what God intended for His creation and now that person owes God.

In addition, God has granted dominion to people; they can own, inherit, select, and choose with freedom. When another takes away their opportunity without first consent, there is a dept owed. Therefore, when transgressing your boundaries it is easy to become in dept to others.

Paul wants us to stop owing people by using love as a tool to fix the reason we transgress towards others. Spouses, friends, acquaintances, and people you work with are people that we offend and these are the ones Paul has in mind; for to our shame, we have done some pretty bad things.

The Beatle's song, All you need is Love, was spot on when telling about the effectiveness of love as a tool; yet though they wrote about it, I do not think they knew much about it. The Bible, however, is an authority on love and in its 361 uses of the word, creates a definition of what love is.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (NKJV)

We are told that we are to love our neighbor as our self and walk in love as Christ loved us. It is so contrary to the way most people live that the entire concept of love is growing cold in our world. Christ said, "Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Matthew 24:12-13 (NKJV )

Love is a transforming tool, changing the way we live; making a person unrecognizable to others who are not present to see the process.

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Romans 13:11-12 (NKJV)

Jesus commanded love from all Christians saying, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) Then He went on to lay down His life for us, a choice decision, that James wrote about saying, that we all should follow His example and lay down our lives also. With Christ's same logic, we should become living sacrifices to which Paul says in our passage, "WAKE UP!"

Christian people often act as if they are a sleep when it comes to loving others. When you are a sleep, to snore is forgivable, yet it is annoying to those who must listen and many Christians sleep so sound that they do not realize they are annoying those around them.

Some Christians sleep during the message being preached at church; some with their eyes open and others literally are sawing logs, head bobbing and jerking. In this important time, where God is speaking through their pastor, they slumber or daydream missing God's desire for the way to live.

This slumber causes a large problem in the ethics of Christians. When doing business with some Christians, they do not apply Biblical principles. Some rather not apply Biblical principles to their work; others do not know what they are. When they should be doing what is best, they see only the things best for themselves or their company.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Romans 13:13-14 (NKJV)

Paul again uses a great term for the way people act towards others, they act drunken; they have no inhibitions and behave badly. They are drunk with their own conceit and continue to drink up; intoxicating themselves by the way they live.

Yet in all that is written, Paul warns that our salvation is at hand and our actions prove our beliefs. Though our actions cannot save us, they are proof to if we truly love God.

Today, if you were to start loving others before yourself and helping where you are needed, you would find that your whole life will be transformed. It is this transformation that Christ died for and though many call themselves Christians and refuse to be transformed, their belief is being judged on their love.

It will be interesting to see if God can call those, who do not let love transform them, His people; yet why would you even entertain the idea of staying the same way and putting your salvation at risk?

Now consider this, if God were to ask those who you owe dept, stemming from the sins that you committed towards them, what would their verdict be? Would they send you to heaven or hell?