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Love God and Keep His Commands

Tom Penrod
2 min readOct 13, 2019

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When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is: fear God and keep His commands, because this is for all humanity. Ecc. 12:13 HCSB https://my.bible.com/bible/72/ECC.12.13.HCSB

Follow the rules.

How many rules do you have? Rules that allow you to operate on autopilot?

  • How to make the bed
  • how to brush our teeth
  • how to make coffee
  • when to do morning exercises.
  • what to write in your journal
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God gave us systems and rules to make our lives easier and better

We know these rules because they are written in our hearts. We want to believe that they are also on autopilot, but we are human.

We want to believe that we know better. That we have new and improved rules.

But what can be better than, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind. And then, Love your neighbor as yourself.

God gives us His Guide to learn the rules

We have the Holy Spirit to give us guidance in those times when we are not certain of how…

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Tom Penrod
Tom Penrod

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