Romans 13: 8-10 (Wednesday, November 7, 2007)

St. Paul tells us in today’s reading that the only debt we should owe as Christians is that of love. For every other debt, we can finish paying and we do have the responsibility to pay, but the debt of love, we can never finish paying. The reason is because love is the foundation of our Christian lives. Every moment in a Christian’s life should be marked by love. Love is the substructure, the structure and supra-structure of our Christian faith. All the commandments are subsumed in love. To say we have paid the debt of love is to say, I can now stop loving. Christians should not stop loving. The moment you stop loving as Jesus did, you have let go of your Christian vocation. Our Christian calling is a call to the love of Jesus Christ. It is when we embrace Christ’s love that we are able to shame the same love with other people. The one law guiding us as Christians is the law of love, if you keep to this law, you can live your life anyway you want to live because your whole life will reflect this law.

Prayer:
Jesus I love you, all I have is yours, yours I am and yours I want to be, do with me whatever you will.