Easy Peasy Lemon Squeazy

Today's reading is 1 John 5:1-12. Within this reading, verse 3 strikes me as incredibly simple and yet incredibly profound.

"Loving God means keeping his commandments, and really that isn't difficult." (1 John 5:3 NLT)

Jesus put the cookies on a pretty low shelf for us. The Pharisees and teachers of the Law and extrapolated over 600 different laws that people had to follow in order to be "right with God". Jesus boiled it down to two - Love God, love People. That's pretty simple.

Today's reading affirms that for us. If we base every decision that we make on how what we are going to do either does or doesn't love God and how it does or doesn't love people - we can rest assured that we are following God's commands. Love God - Love People - pretty simple.