If I were to define fulfilled, I would say something like, “Filled full; rounded out; made complete; finished; satisfied.”

I thought of that word because I found it here:

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Galatians 5:14).

So loving my neighbor satisfies all the law.

Loving my neighbor puts the finishing touches onto the law, making it complete.

How can this be?!

I don’t know for sure. It seems to me that all aspects of the law that govern my relationships with others would be unnecessary for me…if I were to love others as myself.

For that, I need His love stamped in my heart.

“Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ” (Galatians 4:7).

So what?

What difference in my life did it make yesterday? What difference will it make today in how I live?

Maybe none. And for now, maybe that’s OK.

If the reality of that verse hasn’t touched my heart yet, then let it start there. It can affect my life a little later.

What I mean is, this verse talks about my position with God. About who I am.

I am a son!

That realization should be a source of confidence, peace, satisfaction, rest, and joy.

Let me keep coming back to that truth. I am God’s son.

Then let me grow in my living of that truth.

(I make sense to myself but I fear I’m not writing it very well.)