Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Skip every rule and law that anyone tries to bind you with and learn to love. It is the only law that counts, the law of love.

1 Corinthians 13 English Standard Version

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love is the first fruit produced in us.

Galatians 5:22-23 English Standard Version

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Fruits are not produced by effort but rather by the nature of the tree because of where its roots are grounded.

Jeremiah 17:8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

The stream we tap into is the Spirit.

Hebrews 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son

Is the Son talking to you or do you still do whatever you want?

When we go shopping for food, do we choose what is good for us or what we like?

John 6:27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Romans 14:20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

This is what I heard my Lord say to me. What I do with those words is by faith.

Here is a portion set before you. I will not treat you like a mother and tell you “Eat it, it’s good for you.” What I prepare according to my hearing is presented and is now beyond my control to determine what happens next. That is between you and your Lord.

When we first come to the Lord we might find it difficult to hear the Lord who whispers with all the noise around us. He who loves us does not shout at us.

Perhaps the Spirit is reminding you of scriptures that bring light to this moment. That is how it should be and that is beyond my control. I can only relay what I have heard. What the Spirit does with it is between you and our Lord. I would not have it any other way.

Then there are those things the Lord says that are personal and just for me. They are not for consumption. The way I know that is by decades of listening and the mistakes I have made along the way. We cannot know what we should do just because we would choose the easier path. That is not being obedient.

Acts 16:6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

I am no Paul but the Spirit does let me know when my choices are not His choices.

There have been times when I opened my mouth and nothing came out. Today is not that day.