Galatians 5:14-16

14 For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.

    

Because Jesus is our Head, love is a done deal for those who have truly been called and chosen to be one with Him. We do not work to get love, Jesus works and ever lives to give us love! The battle is all Jesus’ and the victory is all ours. 

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

A great example of the Truth that it is Jesus causing us to love can be found with John. John was always confessing that he was the disciple that Jesus loved. We so want to tell people that we love Jesus and that is great, but the power of our life is that Jesus loves us. We are one with Christ, so we will love as He loves, we cannot help but to love our neighbors as Jesus love them, 1 John 4:17. We will love our enemies as Jesus loves them. We will love our friends, family, and co-workers. Because of Jesus, will we love those who have wronged us and we will not remember what they have done. Jesus will cause us to forgive all, Hebrews 2:11. He will cause us to intercede and forgive people that we don’t even know. We are new creatures in Christ and we ever live to intercede in the full and complete power of our Head’s Love. 

15 But if you bite and devour one another [in partisan strife], be careful that you [and your whole fellowship] are not consumed by one another.

    

16 But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).

    

The Holy Spirit is given to us by Jesus, we do not get Him on our own. So for those whom the Holy Spirit is given, we cannot help but be responsive to Him. Think of it, do we control God or does God control us?

So why did our Father have this verse written like this?

Then the disciples came to Him and said, Why do You speak to them in parables? And He replied to them, To you it has been given to know the secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. Matthew 13:10-11

Jesus spoke in such a way that it would take the Holy Spirit to cause us to understand. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He never changes, Hebrews 13:8. This verse was written so that those who are not the Bride of Christ will trust in themselves. Yet for those who have been chosen by God to be the Bride, Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit to reveal the Truth to us and the Truth sets us free. 

There are many who use scriptures to trap and insnare people. Our Father knew that they would, and He wrote the Bible so that they could. He wrote the Bible this way because He knew that He would reveal the Truth to us Himself, 1 John 2:27, because to us the Truth has been given. And the Truth is that because Christ controls us, we will not devour each other. The Truth is that we will respond to the Holy Spirit. We may buck and scream, we may spit up some warm milk, we may doubt and complain, but the glorious Truth is that none of that matters, we will respond to the Holy Spirit. He will never leave us or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5.