Summed up

DEVOTION
ROMANS
SUMMED UP
Rom 13:8-10
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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I think of a line in the movie ‘A Knights Tale’ which reads: “You have been weighed, you have been measured, and have been found wanting”. I wonder if this is true of me when I read these verses which are summed up in love your neighbor as yourself? It would seem this is the only debt that should never be paid off. I must pay the others off that are whenever there is, as in my last devotion, a debt of respect, revenue, tax, or whatever I must make sure I have paid it in full. But here it would seem this is a never ending debt. I must continue to pay each and every day. I must always love others. This is not always the easiest thing to do, yet how do I continually do it? Does this means I must always constantly be at their beck and call? Does this mean I cannot have any alone time for myself? Does this mean I must always place them before me? It sure would seem that way. Yet if I love them the same way I love myself, then that would leave some room for caring about me, and doing things for my own being as well. So I sure should be busy. Again I must defer to the Greek and see this love is the agapao type, or the moral or social type of love. Not so much the benevolent love which God demonstrate toward us. I think the idea here, is I do nothing to harm myself, thus why would I do anything against someone else, like steal, murder, covet, etc. If I love others, I will do them no harm. As in verse ten. This I can do and still have time for me. The other loving is an action loving, demanding my time. So I feel a little more at ease now that I have thought through this and have come to some sense of understanding of my responsibility. But I still cannot help think I am still required to fulfill that other love too. What shall I do? How do I sum it up? Am I found wanting?