Imagine learning the game of soccer for the first time:

• The aim is to score more goals than the other team.
• You may not touch the ball with your hands.
• You must not trip or hold an opponent.
• The ball must stay in play.

After the match, your team wins one [nil] and you say, “I never used my hands. I never kicked the ball out, never fouled anyone. I played the perfect game”.

But that conclusion would be false. Those rules only describe what you avoided. They say nothing about how you helped your team. Avoiding fouls is good, but it is only the minimum, not the full measure of playing well. The Ten Commandments function in a similar way.

Jesus has not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

He does not erase the commandments. He completes them by revealing their inner meaning.

Discipleship is more than not doing wrong. It is learning to love as Christ loves. When his love takes root in us, keeping the commandments becomes almost natural because genuine charity already surpasses the minimum the law requires.