That is a very good post, homwardbound.
I am not sure how folk would react to your statement.
"This is the greatest Love story from God to us"
God at His core is love and that is difficult to comprehend.
That is agape love which is absolutely absent in human history.
Agape love was revealed only in the gospel of Jesus Christ to humanity.
Lord, your love is staggering and far beyond our ability to understand.
It's not God's justice at play but His profound love for you and I.
No one fully understands the love of God which was so powerfully displayed in Christ Jesus.
I am not sure how folk would react to your statement.
"This is the greatest Love story from God to us"
God at His core is love and that is difficult to comprehend.
That is agape love which is absolutely absent in human history.
Agape love was revealed only in the gospel of Jesus Christ to humanity.
Lord, your love is staggering and far beyond our ability to understand.
It's not God's justice at play but His profound love for you and I.
No one fully understands the love of God which was so powerfully displayed in Christ Jesus.
Not, all try and want to do it right, I get that. Our mixing flesh and Spirit of God is much different from God's spirit living in and through us, at least me.
the Bible says to imitate God. S0, we the people camp out on that, and there are those that have given that up, the imitating.
So here is a ? for us all. Each please see to themselves, what their trouble is in trying to do and do not do it right and yet want to do it right and do not want to do that sin anymore?
I will ask this of an Alcoholic, that goes to church, reads the word, wants to quit and does for a short while, then slips back into what one does not want to do anymore and yet does. This includes all other issues, including porn watching, stealing, lying and so forth.
Ask yourself this?
Which Jesus are you serving?
What? I hear each person say, there is only one Jesus, I respond, that is correct.
Therefore, in the ? which Jesus are you serving?
Is it the Jesus that lived his life here on earth as perfect, that you are trying to imitate?
Or is it the risen Jesus to live in you and through you, given you as a gift for you? everything in love and mercy to all, is the gift from God to all, at least for me.
The difference, it is me no more me trying to do Agape Love, which I know I can't do perfectly ever and therefore now have given up everything to Father, as that woman did in Luke 21:1-
Authorized (King James) Version
Luke21:1-4
21 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. 2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. 3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: 4 for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
We all see this, and do we all do that, how many: butts (Like a billy goat) interject in that 100% truth for us to let go of everything willingly to God first above it all? It does not mean we sell everything and be homeless. It means be willing to give as led to give from God not religion churches of people necessarily, that are not God. God still speaks, sit still go into your closet, close the door and tell to Father, Daddy, PaPa, and hear truth over all the errors here in this world still happening as has been happening from day one in the fall of the first Adam.
We now have the 2 Adam, Jesus the risen to live new from and in for me at least. the work tha thad to get done is now done first (John 19:30)
I see, where any thought of anything leads, people in general. It starts a thought, and then comes doing the thought, then out comes drinking a little, then a little more and then more and more. I was an Alcoholic over 40 years ago now. Got caught up in watching porn and partying a lot. Once I see, saw it all began to leave, whatever I got me caught up into
It began the first day I chose belief to God over it all (Eph 1:13), then growing started and saw Eph 1:6.7 Accepted by God and forgiven by God. Talk about being floored and then saw I am forgiven, responded Thank you to God, then asked for the new life and God has been performing that in and through me ever since, yes even where I sinned again, God has not ever left me as people say God does, God does not y'all
God simply sincerely loves us all otherwise why would he have sent Son to that cross for us all to have the chance to choose life over death?
Authorized (King James) Version
Hebrews 10:17
17 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now, presently and forever in risen Son that is now done for us the people, too see and be thankful to Father and then ask how to leave sin behind us? From God who we do not see physically any more as they did (2 Cor 5:16)
Righteousness does not come by the Law!
Perfection comes from through the done work of God Father in risen Son for us all to stand in belief to this truth only, for me anyways as I have seen sin leave, left and am still learning from bad habits waxing away, maturing off the milk and now eating meat. This truth is for us all to love in the same mercy sand truth given us by Son's willingness to die for us all first as reconciled (2 Cor 5:17-20)