The end of the commandment of God, the culmination of it all, the summation of the commandment is this – that we love out of:
A pure heart
With a good conscience
With sincere faith
True love is always based on purity of heart and soul and spirit and action. When I read the word ‘purity’ my mind usually goes to things related to moral purity, but purity is much more than that. It simply means that there is nothing to mar or spoil our love. There is nothing to taint it.
True love comes from a clear conscience. Only we know if our love is rooted in a clear conscience or if there is something else motivating us. Sometimes what passes for love can be motivated by a desire to get something out of it.
True love must be based on sincere faith The word for ‘sincere’ originally meant ‘someone who cannot act.’ I love that definition for this word. Acting is the ultimate in not being genuine. You take on a different role that may be nothing like you at all. A bad actor fails because they can only be them. That’s what this kind of love is, it is just you. Only sincere faith can produce sincere love must be unfeigned. It can have no measure of fakiness or falseness. It is not hypocritical. It is easy to say ‘I love you’ but it is harder to live ‘I love you.’
It is not really good enough to just love with a wonderful brotherly love, though that is important. Our love must go that step further to be the pure, clear, sincere agape love that makes a real difference to those around us.
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