FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS FANTASY

I like the simplicity of only two commandments...first, love God with all your heart, soul, body and brains, and second, love your neighbor as yourself.

I like the simplicity of the words, but doing them is a whole 'nother story...a whole 'nother life in fact.

I'm guessing it's so difficult to show only love even to those who "despitefully use" us because:

1. if it comes from our reasoning mind, it's a self-determined objective, thus of the material world and gives an ego message, open for another's misinterpretation;
2. the reasoning mind then resists the other's misinterpretation, withdraws, comes back as attack attitude;
3. attack attitude invites attack in fact.

To show forth the love that is in God, we must first accept unto realization that that love is already within us. Unless and until we accept it unto realization, it is understanding from the eyebrows up and not of God.

However, that is precisely why we have the Sermon, "a guide and code of human conduct to follow" while learning to live a turned-over-to-God life. It tells us this is the way we must walk/live, believing or not believing, in order to come to acceptance unto realization. We will never get there if we sit by the wayside and ponder it..."analysis leads to paralysis."

I get to simply show Gertrude (who has said some hateful things about me) lovingkindness (and you know she'll think she's right and tell everybody...). Same goes with Hubert (and who knows what all he'll tell?).  

It is in the "let them think" that our thinking, our life, changes...from gritted-teeth resistance to acceptance. It may or not change them, but it does change us. It releases us from reactive thinking and feeling to active lovers of our own being which love flows out from us to others, attracting the same to us. 

Thank You.