ArchivedDeeper understanding about GodGod is love. Therefore, to understand God, we must understand love. Love is a spirit. It is the spirit of God. This spirit is unconditional, pure, holy, sacrificial, eternal and all forgiving. Love sacrifices self so that others may have life. Love is therefore, creative. Love is sanctifying, because, love generates goodness in others. Love brings hope, peace and joy to the broken hearted. Love is therefore, redeeming. The fullness of love is God. In His love, God who is infinite made us who are finite, in His own divine image. Since God is love, we as his image are made to live His life of love. In doing this He invites us to a life of love with Him for all eternity. When we sinned by choosing selfishness, we rejected love (who is God). In doing this we brought eternal death upon ourselves, because, without love (which is eternal) there is no eternal life. God, however, did not give up on us or condemn us. Instead, to save us from death and bring us back into his family, he came into our human family in the person of Jesus and taught us the truth about true love. He taught us to forgive others unceasingly, love our enemies and be helpful to them ( Matt 5:43-48 ), never to judge or condemn others (Luke 6: 37-42), offer our life completely to the service of others (Matt. 22:33-40) and never to divorce our spouse (Matt.19: 4-9). The world rejected his teachings; hated him because of what he taught; and because of their hatred for his teachings, killed Him. Although he had power to prevent his death, he lovingly accepted it. He did this in order to completely empty self on our behalf. He could do this on our behalf, because, his infinite love for us makes him one with us. Furthermore, in order to nourish our souls with his life, he gave us His sacrificial body and blood as real food. His passion and death were acts of infinite love; because, an infinite God gave up His own life, so that those who had rejected Him might have his life. Because love is eternal, His life in our soul (which is love) makes our soul immortal. In other words, because of his death, we do not have to bear the eternal consequences of sins, which is death of our soul. Although we have to face the earthly consequences of sin (which is suffering and death in our present form of life), He (love) helps us to use our sufferings to purify our spirit and gives us hope and peace in the midst of our suffering. |
🌈Pride🌈 goeth before Destruction
When 🌈Pride🌈 cometh, then cometh Shame