WHICH IS THE FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS?

Dt 6,2-6; Ps 17; Heb 7,23-28; Mk 12,28-34
4 NOVEMBER

In chronological order the first commandment is one only: being always and only for man from the will of his God, to be on earth the continuator of creation, that is, the bearer and giver of life and its governor in the name of his Lord.

Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth” (Gen 1.26-28). The Lord God gave man this order: “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame (Cf. Gen 2,1-25).

This between man and his God is not an artificial relationship, but of nature, origin, ontological constitution and of essence. We can compare man to a child in the mother’s womb. Like the child, if it comes out of the mother’s womb before being fully formed, has no chance of life, so is the man. He must always remain in the will of his God if he wants to remain in lfe. While one day one comes out of the mother’s womb, one has never to leave the womb of God’s will. It is the only womb of life for man, on earth, in time and in eternity. As Satan tempted Eve, making her come out of the womb of the divine will and it was death, so he always tempted Lord Jesus, so that He too would came out of the Father’s womb. But he never let himself be seduced and he always won his temptations. Remaining also on the cross in the womb of the Father’s will, he was able to work human redemption.

One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’ And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that (he) answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

What then is the first commandment? Remaining in the will of God. Not in an imagined, fantastic, thoughtful, chosen will, desired by man, but in the will that the Lord has made known and revealed to man so that he observe it. This will concerns the whole of man’s being in all its relationships: with his Creator and Lord, with the Woman, a help correspondent to him, with other men, with time and with things. Everything is from the will of God, will that man will never have to interpret himself. The Holy Spirit is the sole interpreter of the divine will. If man comes out of the womb of God, he dies. He has no chance of life. If he dies, he can only produce works of death, never of life. Only the breast of the divine will is the cradle of true life.

Faithful Virgin, Angels and Saints, teach every man that his life is only in God.