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implications of perfect love

Just go with it....

So, as I read the bible it says God is love (1 John 4:8) and from what I understand about God he's perfect, so God must be perfect love as defined (although not fully) in 1 Cor 13.

So...

God is patient, God is kind, God does not envy, God does not boast, God is not proud, God is not rude, God is not self-seeking, God is not resentful, God pays no attention to a wrong suffered, God does not rejoice at injustice or unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevails, God bears up under anything and everything that comes and is every ready to believe the best of every person, God's hope is fadless under all circumstances, God endures everything without weakening, God never fails.

Continuing on...

Does perfect love (ie God) exist in the kindom of God? Kinda a silly question I know...but hang with. Answer: 'Yep'.

Where is the kingdom of God? Luke 17:21 says it 'is' (present tense) within you (every single solitary person...he was talking to the pharisees ya know).
So...by default 'perfect love' or 'God' is (present tense) within you (every single solitary person).

Does evil, hate, selfishness, accidents, illness, death, separation, fear, any kind of mental of physical disease or ailment, mistakes or trouble, etc exist in the kingdom of God?

Answer: no...although you might wanna stop and consider the implications of that for a moment.

Does anything involving the five senses (ie taste, touch, sight, sound, smell)exist in the kingdom of God?

Answer: no - God is spirit...just check out the fruit of the spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness & self-control)...all the fruit are outside of the realm of the five senses.

Here's the application part....

How would it change you if you looked past all the non-kingdom of God stuff of people, even the really bad people like Osama or bastard that just cut you off and the jerks that abuse their kids AND focus solely on the perfect love (ie God) that exists within them that they may or may not have woken up the reality of yet.

How would focusing on the reality of the perfect love that resides in all people change how you relate, respond and interact with folks?

How would your focusing on that reality of perfect love within others change how they respond to you?

Spend some time with those two questions.

ok...

Sure there would be instances where you turn the other cheek to Osama and he cuts of your head...but what if the cutting off of your head doesn't end your life...it just breaks/ends the container of your life. What if the separation we fear when a loved one dies doesn't really exist because we are all spirit and just because you can't see spirit doesn't mean it's not there (like God yes?). Maybe our fear of death is really a fear of separation (ie we fear being separated from those we love and the world of the five senses. What if we didn't fear death because we understood that to really live we must die...like a seed of a mustard tree (Mark 4:29-31)...once the seed gives birth to life it no longer exists...try diggin up the roots of any plant and finding the seed.

Maybe Osama cuts off the heads of a million folks and never changes...but maybe others change as a result.

Well...to go on...

How would it change the world of the five senses if we all began to live as though perfect love (ie the kingdom of god) existed in every person and physical death wasn't the end (ie separation) but a change of manifestation (from physical to spiritual)?

If all the worlds problems stem from the absence of perfect love (ie chaos, disease, hate, war, hunger, physical & mental illness, need of any kind) what would change if perfect love began to manifest itself through the lives and death of people?

Would we need any worldly system of govenment if perfect love governed all? Would we need countries, borders or money? Would we need hospitals or doctors of the mental or physical kind? Would disease fade away? Would anyone be hungry, thirsty or in need? Would there be accidents or mistakes?

Maybe the second coming of Christ is the manifestations of Christ in every person and the new heaven and the new earth is what that manifestation brings about.
2 Peter 1:3 For His divine power has given us (past tense) everything (not just somethings or a few things) we need (not want) for life and godliness, through personal knowledge of Him (ie knowing him...perfect love) Who called us (draws us to him) by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
I wonder...well...really wonder...dont' you.

posted by Rick @ 7:21 AM