Love is called the fulfilling of the law, not because it is superior to the worship of God, but because it is the proof of it . Ask counsel of your own heart and it will teach you sufficiently how to love your neighbor. This is clearly a new kind of slavery that works from the inside out rather than the outside in . Paul says that our freedom is not for self-indulgence but for service to others. The best reason to be good is to want to be good .
Internal change requires relationship.
It requires love . The second power of love in our lives is inspiration . Love not only restrains evil, it inspires devotion unlike anything the law could ever do. Once I read about a family in crisis whose youngest child had come down with a devastating illness that needed immediate surgery. They needed someone with his rare blood type to give blood for the operation.