All you need is love-Matthew 20-22

What a privilege to open God’s Word and find a page filled with words in red!  My copy of the scripture has the words of Christ in red and the entire first page of this passage comes alive with those beautiful words!  The eloquence and yet simplicity of the words tell a clear story full of hope and inspiration. 

I often wish that we had a more detailed account of the life of Christ.  There is so much more about His life that we will not know until eternity, but the truth we need for life is spelled out in His teachings through parables and preaching.    What about all of the times in between?   In just these three chapters, we read of the parable of the laborers in the vineyard; the parable of the two sons, the parable of the tenants and the parable of the wedding feast.  We see His triumphal entry in Jerusalem, His cleansing of the temple, the challenge of His authority by the Sadducees, His admonition to us to live peaceably with our government and setting us all straight on who will be the greatest! 

All of these principles for living are buttoned up at the end of chapter 22 with the greatest commandments- that we love the Lord with all of our hearts, and that we love one another.  Although we do not have all of the minute details that our curiosity longs to know, we have the one truth that guides all that we do.  If we were to know nothing else, it would be enough. 

“Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done; not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are!”