"Dear
children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."
Love
is not a concept, nor is it an emotion.
So, seeking to love purely through words will not suffice. Love is a mode of being, a Way of existing, a
Way of life. One can talk constantly about love but never truly live in its ways. On the other hand, love is not solely isolated
ethical actions but it is the very thing which gives us our existence. This is
why it is not enough to love simply with actions apart from truth. Ethical notions of love in modern society are far too temporary. Love is not meant to be a temporary reality but
a permanent state of existence that we are to strive for. Therefore, we are to seek to live in this
reality all of the time and everywhere.
This is precisely what it means to obey and why we are to obey the Greatest Commandment.
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