Accountability is never more serious than when we recognize that, while we may be able to fool other humans, including ourselves, nothing slips past God — good or bad.

Constant and never ending improvement is also embodied in the first of these commandments. If you love someone, you don’t hold back. You give them their due … plus as much more as you can. You are the best person you can be toward them and strive to add to that at each opportunity. Whether the love is directed toward God, self or others, it will require of us that we continually improve.

Operating with heart is well covered by this scripture (as well as the 2nd commandment above):

(Ecclesiastes 9:4-10) 4 For as respects whoever is joined to all the living there exists confidence, because a live dog is better off than a dead lion. 5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun. 7 Go, eat your food with rejoicing and drink your wine with a good heart, because already the [true] God has found pleasure in your works. 8 On every occasion let your garments prove to be white, and let oil not be lacking upon your head. 9 See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for that is your portion in life and in your hard work with which you are working hard under the sun. 10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She?ol, the place to which you are going.

Wonderful thoughts. I’ve found with my relatively newbie status as a blogger that everyday when I wakeup, I have this thought of consciousness and accountability of what I’m about to write on my blog. It forces me to transcend fear into boldness, it makes me humble to have an opportunity to make difference and it certainly makes me feel gratitude about this precious gift called life that embraces me with warm, gentle thoughts to dream the dreams and ascend to the higher state of consciousness. It’s a feeling that is inexplicable yet profoundly life changing ….

Shilpan