Sunday, 13 November 2005
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"God is Love..."
(1 John 4:8,16)
Therefore.....
(according to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8....)
God is patient,
God never fails.
God is kind.
God does not envy,
God does not boast,
God is not proud.
God is not rude,
God is not self-seeking,
God is not easily angered,
God keeps no record of wrongs.
God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
God always protects,
God always trusts,
God always hopes,
God always perseveres.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
"In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us
and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."
--1 John 4:7-11
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"That they may be one...That the world may know that...you have loved them."
Kudos
You delight me, Eric. How blessed I am to love someone who knows how to love me back... someone who is learning how to love from the God of Love.
I love you.
Only three words but they mean so much... strange but wonderful!
And of something else...
I have a question, full stop!!
So alright... if people who believe in God and His love (like you and Carrie and me and all other men in our christian community) know what love is and know how to love...
do those who don´t believe in God and His love... don´t know what love is?
-According to what I said in my other comment, there are of course people who only THINK they are in love.. but they aren´t.
("So many people boast, so many are jalous, envy, so many are proud in their "love".
So many are rude, so many are selfseeking, easily angered, so many argue so often.
So many lie to each other, so many are unfaithful...and they think they are in love? No, this is not love." )
BUT:
1) I also see people who do NOT believe in God but ARE very happy in their family or relationships with their sweethearts and friends.
2)And I see people who are really, really very nice to their surroundings. People who have courage to stand for their beliefs...moral courage.
So,... I just don´t understand how:
1) there can be people who love eachother just like in Corinthians, without having faith and
2) how some people who didn´t grew up with faith still have a sense for morality; -how they could develope a sense for morality... (only religion does form you moral,... right?) and how some people who don´t beliefe in God still sacrifice their life for the neighbour without seeing Jesus in every person. "Love your neighbour as yourself"- there are so many people who do it (or at least are trying devotionally)... but have no faith. - how can something like this happen?
... do you know what I mean? I don´t expect any answer... but it is just something that had been on my mind lately.
Ehm... to give a better explanation...
genevievelovesGod said :
"If not for God I wouldn't be capable of true love for my friends and family and the kind that enables me to fogive time and time again." - and Carrie and me, we all do agree, right?
But I know people who ARE capable for love for their friends (I am one of them) and family and the kind that enables them to forgive time and time again. - I don´t understand for who they are kind for if not for Jesus?
I don´t really know how society in America does look like.. but here in Germany it is a really often accurance. Or just take France (now Carrie knows what I am talking about). French people are a bunch of very nice and refined people, also among eachother, you must admit. But as Carrie told me, they didn´t want to hear ANYTHING about God.
So...
Only religion as able to teach you in morality and neighbourly love- is that right? If not, why?
(No answer needed, as I can understand if you don´t know what I am talking about or if it is only in Germany like this and so you have no answer on this strange development of German/European society...or in the other case, if that is a question that simply no one is really interested in)
--Petra, the desperate
I once heard it put this way: “There are only two kinds of people in the world – those who live in the love of God and know it, and those who live in the love of God and don’t know it." Love comes from God alone; it's one of His gifts to us, just like peace, joy, faithfulness, grace, etc... Just because I don't always notice it when God opens up an opportunity for me doesn't mean He didn't do it. Just the same, though many people don't know that love is a gift of God when they use it, that doesn't change the fact that it is. I mean, many people don't realize that LIFE itself is a gift from God, but they still live. I think, among all other things He has given us, love is given to us by other people and through us to other people as a demonstration of God's love, and proof of His existence, so that He may reveal Himself to us. After all, "Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God," so perhaps it is through His love that He works in us to make us realize that He is the Source of that love. But then some just don't see... either because they don't want to, or because they just haven't thought about it, or something...
I hope that makes sense.
And, it wasn't a totally hopeless situation in France. Though it was very dark in some places and some people ignored the Word of God, others were intrigued by it, and still others were pretty excited about it. Anyway, some people in America are just as stone-hearted toward Jesus, though they hear about Him practically everyday. In which cases, all we can do is pray for them...
And love them.
"La la la la la la la la la means, 'I love you.'"
Let's sing, everyone! On three... (one, two, three). Hello? I don't HEAR you...
(I bet someone else can answer this question way better than I just tried to. My apologies.)