Reading:
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Hey, Mark! (I’m talking to myself. But if you’re also Mark, you may listen in. In fact, even if you’re not Mark, listen in.)

Take these three verse fragments.

They will add spice to your life and to your perspective of yourself

And to your life with others. And to your perspective of others.

“We were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel” (4).

“We were gentle among you” (7).

“Ye were dear unto us” (8).

[God...trieth our hearts (1 Thessalonians 2:4)]
from 1 Thessalonians 2:4

Learn them, keep them, do them.
Reading:

Deuteronomy 5:1-21

“…Hear, O Israel, the statues and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them” (Deuteronomy 5:1).

What makes a commandment negative to me?

Is my heart set to listen that I may learn, keep, and do?

Who is the Lord to me? (See verse 6 to get my drift: To the Israelite, He was “the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of….”)

[Hear...that ye may learn, and keep, and do (Deuteronomy 5:1)]
“Hear…that ye may learn.”