21/03/2026
DONT FAIL QUESTION ONE!
You were in an examination hall with a question paper in front of you. There were five questions. The total possible score is 100 marks but question one is compulsory and it carries 70 marks. You couldn't fail question one and pass the exam. Even if you got the other questions right, as long as you fail question 1, you already failed the examination.
Now, understand that life is a kind examination. That question one is the commandment to love God and our fellow humans. Once you get it wrong with loving God and your fellow men, you have failed at life. It doesn't really matter how many other things you get right, but when you fail to love, you have failed at life.
Loving is living. There is no greater commandment than to love. Loving is the fulfillment of the law.
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets (Matthew 22:35 - 40 KJV)
The greatest calling of every believer in Christ is unto love. And when we obey it, God is pleased with us, men are blessed and heaven rejoice.