Love Responding to God’s Love

“The Pharisees, thinking that they did God service by lovelessly serving the law, depersonalized all relationships and dehumanized themselves, and Jesus damned them for it. Loving relations with God, and with others for his sake, are what his service, as set forth in the Decalogue, is really all about” (J.I. Paker, Keeping the Ten Commandments, 33).