“And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.” Luke 7

“You remember the profound remark which Paul makes elsewhere, ‘Love is the fulfilling of the law.’ Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working the passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ came and said, ‘I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.’” From The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond

I was struck this week by the part where Jesus touched the bier. It is my understanding that this was forbidden or breaking a law for him to touch it. He may have been shocking them, he certainly got their attention and stopped them. He broke the mesmerism by following what the Father told him not what man said to do. Their rules did not heal. The Christ Love fulfilled the “whole law.”