I shared from the great commandment verse.
Love the Lord your God from all your heart, with all your soul, all your understanding, and all your strength.
Ever think about why this supposedly great commandment is so often cited and so rarely discussed?
I love John Piper's sharing about the joy in God and love for God>>> here
I think it is beautiful. But then again.. one thing that I am learning as I meditate on the great commandment is this-
My heart is not the same as your heart. Nor are my soul, understanding, and strength the same as yours.
But God does not ask us to love Him the way someone else does. Even if our mum loves to compare our dad to her friend's husband.
No.. God wants us to love him with all that we are. Just as we are.
Yes.. this selfish heart of mine, this heart that is full of deceit, bitterness, and everything that seems so unworthy, this is the heart that He is interested in.
The question is.. will I love him with all of this heart?
Could I? I couldn't on my own. But with Christ in me, I certainly could.
But will I?
Do I really want him to be my all in all?
Is he really, like the parable that he once told us, the treasure that I seek?
Do I really love him and want to see him?
That CS Lewis statement up there, I asked myself two questions:
1) Who cares about being pure in heart anyway? If such virtue is considered valuable in our society, I certainly don't feel it.
2) and then.. blessed are the pure in heart because they shall see God? well.. do we really want to see Him? or are we simply happy enough knowing that he is loving and watching over us?
There are two kind of churches that has strong influence over people around me.
The first kind would not be interested to discuss this hah.
The second one.. would say that this part of loving God would and should be a natural consequence of His loving us.
But here's the paradox of our Christianity.
On one hand it seems like loving and wanting God is something that we could not have decided or done on our own.
Indeed.. not by might not by power but by the Spirit of God.
And yet on the other hand, it seems like God has created us different precisely in the way that we are blessed with the capacity of freewill.
I learn that not everyone would be interested in this (which is okay..),
and not everyone will be agreeable (which I prefer.. because then we can discuss),
but it is not possible for me not to say it just because it's not popular.
because if one day I am no longer with them, I know at least I have shared with them what I truly believe in.
For when you strip naked my belief, my faith, my Christianity..
when you take away all the church doctrines and rituals and instruments and songs and lights and campaigns and gifts that I have come to know and let go..
this is all that is left in me.
that there is simply one issue at the heart of this journey.
Jesus.. He can only be one of the two things.
Either He is not important at all.. or He is the most important of all.
I am definitely neither here not there today.
But which direction are we heading to?
Is His importance in our lives growing or shrinking as time goes by?
John the Baptist, the man who walked in the spirit of the great prophet Elijah,
said this upon meeting Jesus..
"He must become greater.. I must become less."
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