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One Love
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| Posted 11/22/2011 9:29 AM (GMT -6) |   | | Just putting together some love song lyrics...
"Without You, there is no me. You are the most important thing in my life. Everything I do, I do it for You."
When a person is saying this to their Creator and really, really believes it from the depths of their hearts...and lives it out, however stumblingly...
that's faith that, I believe, God empowers and accepts.
Jesus, the Incarnate Word/Logos, perfectly embodied this in his relationship to God the Father. His life and way of being demonstrates that the Father was the absolute most imporant thing in Jesus' life...and he prioritized and conformed his own interests according to that. He did NOTHING without his Father...and the Father involved him and what He was doing.
We (Christians) are to have the same relationship with the Father through the Son (the One Lord, Christ in us, the hope of glory) in the Holy Spirit.
In both movements, we see the fullness of humanity brought out via theocentric self-disposition in the One Triune God via the Holy Spirit.
That's why the Church said that Jesus, having human spirituality, straightened the "crookedness" of the self-dispositional patterns in fallen humanity...and subsequent relational dysfunction between God and humanity. He FULFILLED the imago Dei in human being.
Anyone who says that we can never be like Jesus because "we ain't Jesus"...is simply ignorant of what it MEANS to be human given the revelation of what humanity actually IS ais in light of the One Triune God involved in Christ's coming: THEANDRIC (divine humanity)
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/22/2011 8:41:17 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/22/2011 9:51 AM (GMT -6) | | A believer:
"Without You, there is no me. You are the most important thing in my life. Everything I do, I do it for You."
God:
"Do you really mean that?"
A believer:
"Yes! I do! Well, I try to. As much as I know myself, I really mean to!"
God:
"Then you will be willing to consider what I want to be the most important thing in your life, right? You can't have ME be important without having what I want being equally important."
A believer:
"Uh. Yeah."
God:
"So, what do I want? You know."
A believer:
"Right. You want me to love my "neighbor" as myself through compassion and service."
God:
"Count it!"
A believer:
"Micah 6:8. He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
God:
"You're on fire."
A believer:
"No, I'm not. Just because I KNOW this don't mean I can DO this. I am too weak. I am really nothing. You are gonna have to help me. I cannot do it without you. I'm certain of that."
God:
"Like I don't know that. It pleases Me to give you the Holy Spirit in multiple ways. Uh..."Paraclete" ring a bell?  "
A believer:
"Lord God, please help me. All of my hope is in You."
God:
"That's all I need, my beloved."
A believer:
"..."
God:
"..."
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/22/2011 9:23:18 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 11/22/2011 12:00 PM (GMT -6) | | From Evagrios. On Prayer.
3. Prayer is communion of the intellect with God. What state, then, does the intellect need so that it can reach out to its Lord without deflection and commune with Him without intermediary?
Hint: "..."
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 11/22/2011 11:06:35 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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