How shortsighted are we when it comes to "good"? Very, I would say.
"For those who love God" is a large key to our frame for understanding.
We easily make the Christian life about less than it must be: it is life or death.
A feast beyond compare. We are invited. And yet, we are unworthy to be there.
We have no actual desire to visit a place that we know nothing of.
If love is something to be known, how do we come to actually have a knowledge of God's love? What is it like, and how is it displayed?
Every person believes somewhere within that they can master the religious “system” and somehow manipulate God into what they want, ultimately gaining eternal life.
As believers, we all know people who have seemed to truly believe at a time and yet no longer follow Jesus. For us who believe, how do we keep ourselves in the love of Christ?
In this episode I deviate from the norm with this short story of a man discovering God's love.
The words about loving God's law in Psalm 119 seem like a stretch, at best. At worst, we just don't agree with the wording. So, what's going on in Psalm 119?
Jesus confronts hypocrisy, but is it only the Pharisees?
How does a person obey the command to love God?
What is a human response to the praiseworthy, and how do we respond to God?
If God desires for us to love him from the heart, then the topic is worth some further thought (and maybe, yes definitely, a lifetime.)