If we love we will obey. Obedience is always the test of love. It is easy to talk about our love to God and even to work ourselves up into an emotion of love, but unless it stands the test of “walking in all the commandments” (cf. Luke 1:6), it is nothing but an unreal sentimentality. We have seen children sometimes who would make great professions of loving their parents who yet, when asked to perform some little act of service, would say complainingly, “Oh, can’t somebody else do it?” Real love