A young man was struggling with whether he loved God. Truly loved God. After all, what does it feel like to love God? Is it fair to unleash simplicity simplistically?
If God is his attributes, then to love true holiness (for instance) is to love God. Added to that, God’s law is a reflection of His attributes. So, for instance, to truly love the sixth commandment – on God’s authority alone and not because it suits us – is to love God.
Where the love of God often breaks down is when we don’t love the true equity of God’s case laws, which too are his law and, therefore, a reflection of his attributes and, therefore, himself. We tend to love God, but only so far
How do you know whether you love the right God and not the wrong god ??
ReplyDeleteIslamist love God also, do they love the right and true God ?
Why doesn't this young man ask the Lord Jesus himself, whether he is loved by the Lord Jesus Christ ?
ReplyDeleteSurely the Lord Jesus Christ is old enough to tell him the truth.
I believe with the ever-increasing evolving of technology, the challenge for us is to continue to capture the true essence of God in our individual lives. Even if one hour a day is spent on social media, that is enough fuel to change our whole perspective to life itself, for that individual day. Some of us are constantly leaning on a person we feel has a growing a sense of God's love, but we are not taking the necessary steps needed to receive the grace of God, individually.
ReplyDeleteTo only lean on someone else without ever making a selfless effort to seek God for our self is definitely a short-cut, which is why a lot of us are cut from that grace. The technology today does more harm than good in this sense because now the things we need are at our fingertips. With everything going on about COVID-19, I would think that this would be the opportune time to seek God directly for everything, because all else will fall into place. This is how it should have been prior to the virus, but this is something brought to everyone's desk and to our attention, now that it's here.
Before closing this comment, let me leave with this. I believe God love us so much, because we are seen as good in his eyes. I see the same in people, that we are capable. With each one having counsel we can be more than we are capable of, and that kind of capability can become destructive, or it can feed the masses. Remember, all things good come from God (All GOOD things!). Thank you