Love Notes
You cannot love God unless your spirit is alive.
The world approaches love in one of two ways - body and soul, or soul and body. It's based on physical attraction or emotional compatability. There's a third aspect which no one considers.
Every religion recognises something that most non-religionists don't. Man has an inbuilt need to worship. That is caused by the spirit.
The spirit is dead until Christ enters it when we are born again and it comes alive.
Christians should approach love from the other end of the triangle - top down. Spirit, soul, body.
The world recognises marriage as a union between people who want to spend the rest of their lives together, but it cannot recognise the reason it is so powerful, why it is so attacked, and why it is being so twisted and perverted as it is.
Because it is one of the most powerful demonstrations of the love of God to man, of the union between Christ and the church; the most liveable of all loves.
And the second that is attacked the most? Parenthood. Father God to His children. Weak fathers, dominant mothers, rebellious children, all focused on themselves.
Love so powerful. Love so perverted.
I wonder what would happen if the greatest force in Creation became pure.
Oops, I forgot...it did.
In Christ. ;)
And that was world changing.
And life changing.
The world approaches love in one of two ways - body and soul, or soul and body. It's based on physical attraction or emotional compatability. There's a third aspect which no one considers.
Every religion recognises something that most non-religionists don't. Man has an inbuilt need to worship. That is caused by the spirit.
The spirit is dead until Christ enters it when we are born again and it comes alive.
Christians should approach love from the other end of the triangle - top down. Spirit, soul, body.
The world recognises marriage as a union between people who want to spend the rest of their lives together, but it cannot recognise the reason it is so powerful, why it is so attacked, and why it is being so twisted and perverted as it is.
Because it is one of the most powerful demonstrations of the love of God to man, of the union between Christ and the church; the most liveable of all loves.
And the second that is attacked the most? Parenthood. Father God to His children. Weak fathers, dominant mothers, rebellious children, all focused on themselves.
Love so powerful. Love so perverted.
I wonder what would happen if the greatest force in Creation became pure.
Oops, I forgot...it did.
In Christ. ;)
And that was world changing.
And life changing.
Exactly where I've come to on it. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, marriage is when you want to spend the rest of your life with that person... but you can have that with friends.
It is a bond between souls... but it goes SO much deeper.
To be one in spirit with God and His people is the goal in life. :D
Thanks deary. :)
Well said Hallie. God devotes a whole chapter (1 Cor. 13) to love. This being Agape love which is the same love God shows for us. Jesus went even further to say Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. This cannot be Phileo (I like you) or Eros (where we get thew English erotic from). It must be a pure, selfless love. and we are commanded to love each other not out of duty but because we want to but because we are commanded to love God and God is love. The only difference with marriage is in that case the twain shall become one whereas in friendship/ Christian brother and sister that isn't the case
ReplyDelete*claps* Very well said, my dearest! *hugs* Love you, Janey <3 :)
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