The Law of Christ

In Galatians 6:2, Paul asks believers to “bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ”. But what is this law of Christ’s? It is different from the 10 Commandments. When Jesus was asked what the greatest law is He said “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind….. You shall love your neighbor as yourself”-Matthew 22:37-39. Jesus was quoting the Law when He said that. But when He was about departing earth, He told His disciples “a new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another”-John 14:34. Believers are NOT meant to love others as themselves. They are meant to love others as Jesus loved. Jesus knew and the law proved that people do not know how to love themselves and expecting them to love others as theirselves would be to put those others at risk. So He gave what you might call a constitutional amendment to the 10 commandments using Himself as a measure of love. He says to you and I who have experienced heartbreak and heartache which caused us to have a distorted image of ourselves-It is okay if you do not know how to love others. Just look at the way I treated people and then treat your neighbour like that.