Simple Love

God is love! Is it really that simple? I believe that it is!.. Everyone knows what he did for us on the cross, but is it truly "real" to us.. his love that is. As Christians we can fill our lives with good Christian things, that are not Gods love. We find ourselves picking fights with other believers, being disloyal to good friends and even our Churches, and all these things lead to is disunity. The hardest thing a person in this situation can believe is that the enemy isn't the fellow believer with different doctrine beliefs, or someone who is standing in the way of you achieving a big title, but it is truly the devil!! What does God have to say about this you ask!?! It is soo very simple that it's almost pathetic.. He says love me (God) and love others. Notice that when it comes down to it God doesn't give a list of theological things to believe in with your head, he simply says love. Now I know what I personally believe in, and I am open to what others have to say. But when the rubber meets the road and I find myself in a disagreement, I ask myself how is arguing beliefs love!? It isn't!!! Jesus didn't shove the gospel upon anyone, in fact all He did was love! Me trying to describe love in this short essay of my ideas is almost pointless because love isn't something you can learn from mere text, including the gospel, love can only be learned through a relationship with Jesus Christ. All of the pharisees knew the gospel front and back, but none had love. My encouragement would be simple, take time out of your day to devote to God, truly seek Him and I promise you that you will find Him. This is the only way to experience true love. It isn't found in money, relationships, power, pride, family, or even a title! He is the only way, and once you have that relationship with Him, the fruit of the spirit will flow from you and be very apparent to those around you, especially the greatest one, love! Then, and only then do you put things into perspective, and truly realize what is important in life...

If the bible says, "I (Jesus) am the way, the truth, and the light, no man comes to the father except through me," and I believe that and live my life by that principle, then I could essentially call that my way to salvation. But then if someone with beliefs other than that of mine approaches me, is it ok for me to judge that person by saying that because you don't believe in what I do you're not going to heaven?, even though what I believe in is clearly written and backed up in the word of God!?!? This is just one of the many "controversies" that we need to perfect. Now a days I think that us Christians take things way to literally, out of context, and are not sensitive at all to the saved and unsaved people around us, and even sometimes the holy spirit. The word of God also says that "God is Love," it also portrays the qualities of love (patient, kind...we should all know this, lol) But when I read these qualities, and apply them to the word, and my experiences of constantly getting to know God more and more, I cant help but think that Jesus wouldn't condemn the sinner, but he would be his best friend. In the new testament Jesus wasn't at a Christian conference twice a week, he was on the street corners healing the blind with mud, lol, he was fishing with his friends, and eating in sinners homes, but always ministering to them by his lifestyle, not throwing scripture or condemning them. I may very well be wrong in my conclusion of all of this, but I firmly believe that we as Christians need to stop "picking" at the bible, and begin allow the breath of God to reveal his word as we read it, the way it was intended, but how can we do this if all we have is the physical bible?? PEOPLE, WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!! It's such a simple concept! The "Word" is dead to those who are dead to the holy spirit, its nothing more than mere words. We can derive all sorts of crazy ideas and philosophies if it falls upon dead eyes, we need an intimate relationship with the Lord! We need to be "truly" saved.... Some time ago, a very wise man told me that he was once asked a question by a young child, the boy asked him "How can I know when if truly saved?" And after he thought about it for a minute, he said "Walk like Enoch did." At first this may seem like a poor answer that couldn't been much more "spiritual." But for some reason, that response has been embedded in my mind for the past 10 years of my life. Enoch was a simple man who just loved Jesus. He didn't complicate things with contradicting theologies, he didn't even judge someone who didn't share in his beliefs. He simply sought Jesus all the time, and built such a profound relationship with Him that one day he "walked away" with Jesus into heaven. I long to live a life like that, or maybe like that of John, who came so close to Jesus that he laid his head on Jesus's chest and heard his heartbeat.. Thats how I wanna live my life, do you?? Think about it!

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Thank you for coming to my blog!! This is the first of many posts yet to come. I will be mainly focusing on what God is doing in my life. If at any time you would like to share what he is doing in your life please feel free to comment. As always, give God the praise he deserves by telling people what He's done!!