2007-12-22 01:15:40 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am here to get this right, then I get to go home.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-12-22 01:22:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
A Profound Question.
I suggest to you that scripture offers a two-part answer:
1. Be reconciled with God. John 3:16
2. Cooperate with God. He wants to transform us into the image of Christ, so that our natural inclinations for thought, word, and deed, will be like those portrayed in the Sermon on the Mount.
Some verses to meditate upon:
Galatians 4:19
“my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you”
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Matthew chapters 5-7
2007-12-22 10:57:23 · answer #2 · answered by Scott S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star This is my quest
To follow that star No matter how hopeless No matter how far
To fight for the right Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
2007-12-22 01:36:54 · answer #3 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religiously speaking, a person can only get nearer and nearer but he will never be one with Him. Whilst for someone spiritual who experiences God through meditation, he gets to feel God in his consciousness and get to transcend this world to go beyond the limits of this material world.
2007-12-23 20:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by World Vision 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully it would be to become a better person. Unfortunately that isn't always the case. Jesus didn't like "religious" people because they tended to be phoney. Hmmm, people don't change much.
2007-12-22 01:29:42 · answer #5 · answered by Que bella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Witness, To Love, and Help Others.
2007-12-22 01:17:59 · answer #6 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To prepare for the next life.
2007-12-22 01:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
wen one find the truth in itself is the goal.
and to surve his life for the better of others
ur life guru raju
2007-12-22 01:21:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have journey for human being from less joy state(body consiousness state or sensual pleasures-eating ,drinking ,sex etc) to moderate joy state(mind consiousness state - love that is loving fellow beings etc to metaphysical state or soul consiousness state wich gives absolute joy (Bliss)
2007-12-22 04:00:52 · answer #9 · answered by sheshu 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to learn how to live until the expiry of the body and to achieve the liberation from birth and death.thanks
2007-12-22 05:31:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋