Jesus said, "I am the way the truth, and the light", and that the sum of the 'Law' was love.
This is not so easy to interpret I know. I say I love my mum and in the next sentence, I love McDonalds, I love that dress, and I love those shoes - this may be on the spectrum but it is not anywhere near Jesus' start point.
The love he spoke of, relates to love for one another as a reflection of our love for God. the respect, dignity, care, kindness, and gentleness with each other. How we welcome strangers and those without support, how we go out of our way to ensure each of us has enough, and when we forget, he asks us to ask for forgiveness, to give forgiveness when asked, and to seek to make changes.
Nothing about this real Christianity is soft. Attending Chapel, Church, singing, praying are all noble and worthy expressions of our love for god and each other, but they build on the relationships we are already working with, they do not replace the law of love, as Jesus worded it. In fact without love, we are wasting our time.
Love is not easy, love requires the Spirit of God, the commitment to letting our ego, fear, and false perception of superiority go.
Jesus as we near Easter, pray for us,be with us to love, to know what love is, to experience true love.
Pa Richard
This is not so easy to interpret I know. I say I love my mum and in the next sentence, I love McDonalds, I love that dress, and I love those shoes - this may be on the spectrum but it is not anywhere near Jesus' start point.
The love he spoke of, relates to love for one another as a reflection of our love for God. the respect, dignity, care, kindness, and gentleness with each other. How we welcome strangers and those without support, how we go out of our way to ensure each of us has enough, and when we forget, he asks us to ask for forgiveness, to give forgiveness when asked, and to seek to make changes.
Nothing about this real Christianity is soft. Attending Chapel, Church, singing, praying are all noble and worthy expressions of our love for god and each other, but they build on the relationships we are already working with, they do not replace the law of love, as Jesus worded it. In fact without love, we are wasting our time.
Love is not easy, love requires the Spirit of God, the commitment to letting our ego, fear, and false perception of superiority go.
Jesus as we near Easter, pray for us,be with us to love, to know what love is, to experience true love.
Pa Richard
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