A life of earning or yearning?
God loves you. Really, He does.
Faith is a response to God’s love.
When our response attempts to earn or achieve God’s love it stand at
risk to become distorted. As
Claypot reconsiders membership for 2010 we are starting the year by memorizing 1
John 4.19,
We love (God), because He first loved us.
We are asking whether our disciplines are
done in order to earn God’s love or to put ourselves in a place to receive God’s
love. So, when I read Bible, pray,
fast, do solitude is it a way of earning or yearning?
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Tom loves life and enjoys exploring as much of it as he can. He is sharing life with Lollie, Tayla and Liam as well as friends and family. He is passionate about the kingdom and how it takes expression in South Africa.
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It depends on whether your definition of love is occidental or Scriptural?
In the context of practical Christian living and spirituality (1 J. 4:19), it is more Scriptural to say that God loves those who love Him.
Did Jesus not say, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.”?
Obedience is binary. If you…then… I will.
Tom you know the Bible; isn’t this the great theme that runs from Genesis to Revelation?
Let me also say that unless I start perfoming, I will never start yearning.
To love the Lord is a voluntary obligation.
I volunteered. Now I am obligated.
Shalom
For me the disciplines are done out yearning. Yearning to be closer to the One I love and hear from Him. They are also practices that help me to grow again, by being with the only One who can truly provide the growth and maturity that I need. Of course I long to be more like Jesus, but I earnestly desire that. I'm not trying to earn stripes as much as I've made a choice to be as much like Christ as possible because I so believe that being like Him is what is best not only for me, but for the world. I've bought into His mission and want to share His good news with the world that all might be reconciled to Him.