I was looking over old posts, and as I read over my first blog post I had an epiphany.
In Romans, Paul speaks much about and how without faith, its keeping is dead.1
So in other words, we can't keep the law without faith, even if we go to church every weekend or do good acts of kindness, what we do is worthless if we do not have faith. I also thought about how God shows us through His word that without faith it is impossible to please Him. 2
That's kind of scary to me, it really cuts deep in the sense that all my efforts for His kingdom are worthless if I don't have my heart completely in my efforts.3
I also thought about the last verse of my first blog posting, it says "Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing causes them to stumble."4
I thought about what it means to love the law and I remembered the words of John,
"But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love...God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them."5
In other words,
we need
faith for the law
faith for the law of love = love for God6
it is the law of love, because it is not just a set of rules, without love/God, the law can be tossed and flipped and completely distorted,7
e.g. This is what happened with the Pharisees, they forgot about the God whom they served, just like the Israelites did so many times in the wilderness [Old Testament] and ended up focusing on trivial matters like not washing your hands before eating.8
Of course Jesus knew the importance of this verse, but like the all-knowing and heart-searching God that He is, He pointed out what was really going on in the heart of the matter: He replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?" 8
The Pharisees were so set in on themselves, on the god of self-dependence they had created that they did not even recognize their Saviour when He came, as the the writings that they were supposed to know inside and out well said; "Well then, if you teach others, why don't you teach yourself?"9
What we must remember:
God = love5
faith for the law of God = Godliness/knowing true love
knowing true love = knowing true peace
love for the law = great peace4
true keeping of the law = great peace
if God = love, then it is in Godly keeping of the law that we come to know peace.
When we keep the law of love in faith, we will get to know love better and experience great peace.
Thank you God for this revelation! :)
1 Romans 3:27
2 Hebrews 11:6
3 Mark 12:30
4 Psalms 119:165
5 1 John 4:8, 16 [latter]
6 1 John 5:3
7 1 John 2:3-5
8 Matthew 15:2,3
8 Romans 2:21
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
A Dedication
First I owe my thanks to Jesus Christ my Saviour, who saw my greatest need and fed it through a relationship with Him, who saw me before my own grandmother existed and felt excited for my presence, who challenged me to aim higher even in the midst of the fear and the very real evil of this world.
Second and lastly, for a third might defeat the purpose [for the blog] of this ode, I must thank the availability of this blog, Blogger, its makers, by golly gee, the Internet! And yes, that is a thanks all in one. But it is a great one because I am truly grateful for your unfailing availability, not often ruined by the elements as paper [journal] is, and just by your ability to be known, to be put out there in a space [cloud space] not known to man several decades ago but so efficient and so convenient yet 'curseworthy' at times. Regardless, this is a positive ode. I thank you for a space [Blogger page] as well to post my feelings, to expand upon what I have already known through expression of words that quickly become old knowledge, making room, encouraging sanity for the new and the brave. Thank you for in letting me express my self through diction, I was able to revisit my 'at times' scathing thoughts towards my sins and brethren and see how unworthy I am of the cross, and how truly and inevitably humbled one should be in light of such undeserving grace from a worthy and Awesome! Saviour :)
You have been a sort of indirect guidance back to my primordial roots, you have given me more than a hobby, but rather a lifelong habit towards knowing myself, and therefore seeking the Saviour :)
Second and lastly, for a third might defeat the purpose [for the blog] of this ode, I must thank the availability of this blog, Blogger, its makers, by golly gee, the Internet! And yes, that is a thanks all in one. But it is a great one because I am truly grateful for your unfailing availability, not often ruined by the elements as paper [journal] is, and just by your ability to be known, to be put out there in a space [cloud space] not known to man several decades ago but so efficient and so convenient yet 'curseworthy' at times. Regardless, this is a positive ode. I thank you for a space [Blogger page] as well to post my feelings, to expand upon what I have already known through expression of words that quickly become old knowledge, making room, encouraging sanity for the new and the brave. Thank you for in letting me express my self through diction, I was able to revisit my 'at times' scathing thoughts towards my sins and brethren and see how unworthy I am of the cross, and how truly and inevitably humbled one should be in light of such undeserving grace from a worthy and Awesome! Saviour :)
You have been a sort of indirect guidance back to my primordial roots, you have given me more than a hobby, but rather a lifelong habit towards knowing myself, and therefore seeking the Saviour :)
Monday, March 7, 2011
His purpose = the Highest purpose
1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8: 1-5
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8: 1-5
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Change and God
Why is it that I go throughout the day with my highest goal in mind to be kind and at peace with my brothers and sisters, and then go to bed and find myself an insomniac only entertaining and preconceiving frustrations?
I wish that I did not have to "die daily".
I feel like such a failure in this respect.
Though at the same time, as I write these words I can't help but feel glad to know that my Saviour surely uses this as a way to show my great need for Him.
No reminder - not my descendants, who my family is, what my race is - ever gives me as fulfilling purpose as that of being a child and servant of the Great King. Indubitably, such traits of life are conclusively for His sole purpose. :)
It's amazing to think that I have no control over anything, Nothing at all! The reason it's so amazing to me is because, time and time again I try to fix situations in my life so that I - delusionally - am in control over them. I don't know what it is, this hunger to ever be in control of life. It's so silly, how I think I possess control even over little things like fixing and organizing. The truth is, nothing in this life will ever remain the same! It's enough to drive one nuts!
But the most amazing, marvelous, and awe-inspiring thing
is that God,
being the only constant for humanity,
intended life to be just this way (Him as constant).
I wish that I did not have to "die daily".
I feel like such a failure in this respect.
Though at the same time, as I write these words I can't help but feel glad to know that my Saviour surely uses this as a way to show my great need for Him.
No reminder - not my descendants, who my family is, what my race is - ever gives me as fulfilling purpose as that of being a child and servant of the Great King. Indubitably, such traits of life are conclusively for His sole purpose. :)
It's amazing to think that I have no control over anything, Nothing at all! The reason it's so amazing to me is because, time and time again I try to fix situations in my life so that I - delusionally - am in control over them. I don't know what it is, this hunger to ever be in control of life. It's so silly, how I think I possess control even over little things like fixing and organizing. The truth is, nothing in this life will ever remain the same! It's enough to drive one nuts!
But the most amazing, marvelous, and awe-inspiring thing
is that God,
being the only constant for humanity,
intended life to be just this way (Him as constant).
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