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Love on Trialâ?¦..millions Accuse Love of Unfairness and Deception – Read All the Juicy Details in This One-of-a-kind Article!

The court room was jam-packed, while thousands gathered in the street outside to hear the fate of Love. Love arrived at exactly 9.30 a.m., that morning, and was escorted into the court by four (4) armed policemen ��.accused by millions of lies and inequity in its role as a benefactor of the people.

While this scene transpired, many questioned:

â??Would Love be found guilty, charged and lost in jail? Or would she be freed to function with business as usual?â?

All evidence seemed to purport Loveâ??s guilt and conviction.

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That dreaded day, accuser after accuser took the witness stand to give their testimonies against Love, while Love silently looked on; undaunted by many who blamed Love for their loss and pain, and sought for justice. â??Love must be made to pay for all the pain Iâ??ve gone throughâ? they vowedâ?¦â?¦

Dear readers, the intention of this article is to only focus on what Lovesâ?? accusers charge, and how Love responded to those allegations.

The following is a summary of just two (2) of those accusations, and loveâ??s defense to them.

ï?§ The first accuser to take the witness stand was: Hurt

Hurt said, â??I believed in Loveâ??s promises, initially, and opened my heart to let love inâ?¦only to have love bring painâ?¦â?¦How could I think good thoughts about Love, anymore, when Love has left me with a broken heart?â?

â??After what Love did to me, I donâ??t ever want to know Love again. In fact, Iâ??m going to pass Love straight whenever I see her. And I wonâ??t recommend Love to anyone, again.â?

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Friends, in defense, Loveâ??s reply was:

â??Hurt, I am not the reason why you were brokenhearted. It was your lack of knowledge, understanding and experience about relationships, which brought you your own pain â?? Not me.â?

â??If you are honest with me, Iâ??m sure you will agree that you didnâ??t listen to my counsel when I tried to warn you, or sent others to instruct youâ?¦..that you were making a mistake by forming a romantic relationship with the guy you claimed I chose for you, but you didnâ??t take my warnings.â?

â??You allowed your feelings to dictate your decisions. And now you have received a broken heart, you blame me for your position?â?

â??Hurt, itâ??s time to take responsibility for your own actions, and stop blaming Love for your poor decisions.â?

â??Itâ??s your lack of knowledge and experience about relationships that caused you pain â?? Not me. Because you failed to practice the basic tenets of Love, you paid with a broken heart. I did not send a broken heart. My rules actually protect you from experiencing a broken heart.â?

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ï?§ â??Hurtâ?? left the stand to allow Loveâ??s next accuser: Low Self Esteem, to testify.

And as Low Self Esteem took the stand, he shouted, â??Love you have your favorites. You only show favor to a selected few!â?

â??Because Iâ??m ugly, and have an average paying job you disliked me, and honored prestigious individuals, instead. How can you say, youâ??re impartial, when itâ??s clear you only choose the pretty/handsome and upper class?â?

â??Love youâ??re not for me. So I wonâ??t waste my time on you – To hell with you!â?

Friends, Loveâ??s response to Low Self Esteem stormy outbursts was typical of Loveâ??s character.

â??Low Self Esteem, my favors are for all. I am not a respecter of persons. Itâ??s your wrong beliefs about me, which have given you the life you now live. You will only have what you believe. If you believe that I am only favorable to the good-looking and upper class, then you will not give me a chance to prove myself, or allow me to freely share my gifts with you.â?

â??Remember, you are Godâ??s creation, and everything He made was good. How can you then call yourself ugly, when He sees you as the apple of His eyes?â?

â??And how can you say that Love is only favorable to the upper class? If you had really known me, you would have known that Love cannot be bought. She always gives herself freely to others, expecting nothing in return. If someone showed up at your door, and said they know me, but is subtly concerned about how much money you possess, or are working for â?? They donâ??t know me. Because I am not about Money, my aim is the heart of individualsâ?¦â?¦..â?

Friends, I have to close this article on this note, but the short and long of it is: Love was proven: â??Not guiltyâ??. And was free to continue her good works, everywhereâ?¦Donâ??t be surprise to see Love shows up at your door volunteering to help you, even if you had been one who had the world of negative things to say about Love. Such is the nature of Love.

Roger Ali Bocus

Author & Motivational Speaker

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A Meditation on Love

When people talk about where they find beauty, what is beautiful to them, they reveal whom they love and how they love, and what they love to do.

Listening as people recollect and offer their own beauty stories, I am in awe of the ways that beauty moves in our lives. Everyone who has a family, or loves an animal or a place or a piece of music, has a beauty story to tell. A man reflects on the challenge of keeping Eros alive in a long marriage, a woman speaks of what it was like to grow up with a mother who was a model, another comments on learning how to appreciate her own beauty when compared to a classically gorgeous sister.

As we speak about our personal relationship to beauty and what is beautiful to us, we reveal our longings to be seen, our need for acceptance, the powerful influence of mothers and fathers, grandparents, older siblings, first loves and favorite cousins, our keen ability to remember what embarrassed, confused, and delighted us, our yearnings to stand out and to fit in, our desire to be loved. In our own stories we mark the distinction between looking beautiful and feeling beautiful — the part of us trapped by our culture and the part of us that knows our own value.

A nurse declares that her beauty secret is that the husband who adores her is nearsighted, so when she is close enough for him to see her, is seeing her with the eyes of love. A newspaper story describes how a young interracial blind couple got together when she became attracted to voice, reminding us that prejudice is born in dismissing people because look different, because we see them as exotic and frightening.

“Love is blind,” we say, but perhaps it is more accurate to say love sees with different eyes. Love sees beyond the surface. Love opens the door for beauty. When we see with the eye, we develop the ability to refine, to judge, to discriminate. When we see with the heart, we expand the view of what it is to be human, see the common dream, see the wisdom of friends and neighbors, see there is no separation between that which is most beautiful and the everyday world. The eye of the heart sees with a wholeness that allows imperfections and idiosyncrasies to coexist with beauty. The eye of the heart knows surface and depth are not opposites. Beauty is a process, a revelation, not a finished state.

Beauty reveals itself over time in relationship. The people I love are beautiful to me. I’m not sure if my eyes are blinded by love or it is love that lets me see their beauty. Knowing them over time, my appreciation of who they are and how they appear increases. Their beauty comes from their liveliness and authentic sweetness, their intention to live lives that make some sense (and some nonsense), the spirited coherence of being who they are.

A teacher recalls sitting in on another teacher’s class and thinking, “Isn’t it strange how ordinary looking, how rather plain these kids are? My students are beautiful.” She sees her students as gorgeous because she knows them well. “When you sit with them or work with them and see them every day and know their moods, they become more amazing, not less so,”‘ she says. “And then, I realized that the kids in the other classroom look beautiful to their teacher, too.”

When a beautician notes, “All my clients are beautiful,” I hear how her awareness of and attention to beauty brings it out in others.

When we are most alive, we are beautiful. When we are in love, we are reminded that we are beautiful. And sometimes when we know we are beautiful, we find ourselves in love. “In love” usually means the romantic sense of being with one other person who in that moment we feel reflects us perfectly. In love, living in the field of love. Sometimes I have felt like I was in love, even when there was no one I was in love with. I couldn’t talk about my lover’s hands or eyes or voice. I couldn’t focus all this love on one other, and it was both confusing and revealing to realize how much we become places for each other to rest in. Alone and “in love” it is easy to feel like you’re making it up. Our songs and movies have told us such great sentimental stories about being “in love,” we forget that being in love can be a state of truth as well as an illusion.

Longtime friends witnessing a friend “falling in love” often caution the infatuated person that being in love is a dizzy, temporary state. I think of this territory not just as a delicious romantic dance, but as a field to which we can travel from many places. There is a way in which being in love with anything — a person, a place, a project — is crossing a border into a country where the ego does not rule, being in a state where essence is honored. We are both inside and outside our everyday selves. It is always interesting to observe what happens when we return to the land of ordinary life. Can we live with more generosity and trust?

I never want to underestimate the capacity that being “in love” has to change our seeing, expand our vision, and remind us of both human beauty and human frailty. The search for the beloved is full of paradoxes. We want to be who we are when we are our best self, and sometimes because we have met that self when we are in love, we believe that self only exists in the presence of the other. So we hold on to the other and lose ourselves, forget that love is partly of this world and partly of some other place.

An old beau spoke of the danger of trying to make our lovers be God, insisting that we each need our own relationship to the Source. It sounded logical, but I rebelled at his analysis. In this world, one of the ways we glimpse God is when we are in love. Not that the beloved is God, but that God is the Beloved, a tradition as old as the Song of Songs and the ecstatic poems of wandering Indian mystics, the Sufis. One of the most beautiful and accessible ways to address God is as Love.

The Greeks gave us an image of Eros, the unpredictable archer before whom even the Gods trembled. Hindus tell their stories of the Gopi maidens seeking Krishna, the bewitchingly beautiful, blue-skinned god; Krishna with his soft glowing eyes, perfumed hair, Krishna drawing women to him, touching each in forgotten registers of being.

What is done with love is done in beauty to celebrate the God that loves. More and more I believe the messengers of love, the envoys and the couriers of beauty are everywhere. And I wonder how something so clear can also be mysterious. The Indian poet Ghalib writes, “This earth, burnished by hearing the Name, is so certain of Love that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.”

from the book Notes on the Need for Beauty by J. Ruth Gendler Published by Marlowe & Company; May 2007;$15.95US; 978-1-56924-292-6 Copyright © 2007 J. Ruth Gendler

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The Way of the Lover: the Religion of Love

I follow the religion of Love;

Whatever way Love’s camels take,

That is my religion and my faith

Ibn al-‘Arabi

Sufis are divine lovers and the great Sufi masters like Ibn al-‘Arabi and Rumi are beacons lighting the way for all travellers on the path of love. This path begins at the heart and ends at the heart.

But the ways of God are strange and so are the ways of man (which is only fitting if you consider that Sufis believe man was made in the image of God), and so this pathway to love and the divine may not always be simple or clear.

In the old days, for example, in the city of Gangowah, India, there was a Sufi master called Shaikh Mohammad Sadiq. He had a disciple by the name of Sheikh Jamal who could not concentrate when engaged in Sufi practices. His mind always wandered. When he was instructed by his Shaikh to perform a very difficult Sufi practice in complete isolation for forty days, he hesitantly confessed his problem to his spiritual master. The Shaikh asked, “What do you love most in this world?”

The disciple’s answer was unusual: “I love my black buffalo with long horns”. The master thought for a while and said, “It is fine; this problem can be solved. When you do this practice and invoke the name of God, concentrate solely on your beloved buffalo.”

Sheikh Jamal went into a small room and started his practice. After forty days, the door of that small meditation room was opened and the Shaikh called for his disciple to come out. But Sheikh Jamal cried out from inside, “Oh master, I cannot come out because big horns have grown on my head!” The master then forcefully pulled his disciple out of the small door.

When Sheikh Jamal came out of that meditation room, he was no longer an apprentice but had become a perfect lover. So even the love of a buffalo can bring us to an understanding of God and divine! For Sufis, everything is an expression of God, including buffalo, and it is no different with love: in love we meet – and become – God.

When the last century was in its sixties, I was in my early twenties; full of energy, enthusiasm, and exuberance. I was also a revolutionary. I fell in love with a married woman, ten years older than me. It was an unrequited love and I suffered much.

For my revolutionary friends, it was meaningless suffering. To console me in those days, they would frequently recite what was probably Karl Marx’s only quotation on love: “If you love someone without evoking love in return and your living expression does not convert yourself into a loving being then your love is impotent, a misfortune.”

But then, and now, I always believed that Karl Marx was wrong on that point. Even one-sided, unproductive love is not a misfortune. It has the potential to produce the most potent love in the world. Love, in whatever stage, in whatever shape, in whatever disguise, is still love. As Ross Heaven writes, love is energy – the most powerful energy. It has to go forward, upward, downward, and in all four directions. My love guided me to the Sufi path.

Love is the only theme, the only objective, the only point, the only centre, and the only core that all of Sufism revolves around. Extended ritual, great sufferings, mortification, and a warrior-like fight against one’s ego are just necessities or inevitabilities on the path to achieve the real goal: true love. The process is itself important as it makes the lover’s soul/spirit pure, reflective, and gracious. The peripheral effects are that those beautiful souls and spirits of the active lovers among us become divine blessings, not only for mankind, but for all organic and non-organic life in this mysterious cosmos. Their blessing is a continuous process that will stay with us even after our physical departure from this world. Our souls, in their long journeys through many planes, will always find solace in the blissful presence of the pure and kind souls of lovers. Their luminosity provides us with nourishment, which is essential for our souls to breath and grow.

Without their purity and freshness, their kindness and benevolence, life would be breathless and, to a great extent, worthless. They are a real blessing for us and we all should be grateful for this divine graciousness.

Among these beautiful souls are ones such as Rumi, who are known by Sufis as aashiq: the arch lovers. They practised love with such vigour, such intensity, that they were totally absorbed in their beloved. They surrendered themselves completely and asked in awe, “Who am I anyway?” They had forgotten whether they were lovers or beloved. All differences, all dichotomies, disappeared as if they were never there. They found ‘oneness’. The perceived separation disappeared and they became God, the Divine. Then they declared with exuberance that there is nothing but God.

Somebody once asked a Sufi his name and the Sufi drowned in his thoughts but could not recall it. All that was there in his memory was his beloved’s name. There was nothing else. Another Sufi used to forget which of his legs was right and which was left. He had to wait at the door of the mosque until somebody could tell him. Then, as is stipulated in Islam, he would put his right foot first in the place of prayer. He had reached the stage where sides do not exist. Whichever side the ardent lover looks, he finds only his beloved.

The destiny of every Sufi is merger with the beloved. That state is called fana fi Allah, annihilation in God. But that is not the end of the story. They have to return back to the mundane world. That is the highest stage in Sufism, called baqa bil Allah, subsistence in God. But this time they are not separated from God because there is no lover and no beloved, there is only oneness. Only Love.

From the start, Sufis know that God, the beloved, is purest of the pure. And they know that only a pure and truthful heart can reach this beloved. They use their love to purify their hearts. With the power of their love they shun all falseness, all impurities, and their hearts become delightful with truthfulness and light. This is often an arduous process which demands faith, courage, and total commitment to the beloved and, more or less in every case, a master. So most of them have a proper and trained guide in the shape of a shaikh, pir, or murshid (the spiritual master). Their relationship with him requires complete surrender. There were some exceptions, as there always are, and they were called the fools of God.

Sufis pass through the unknown, veiled, and mysterious planes and dimensions. Along the way they meet prophets, angels, saintly souls and other highly developed beings who reveal many secrets to them and help them in their journey. This experience is always unique and gives many of them miraculous powers and a different kind of wisdom. They automatically become great healers of mind, body, and spirit. But they never use their amazing powers or wisdom for themselves. They are always used for the well-being of sick, hungry, poor, and needy people.

Most of the Sufi masters tried very hard, in fact, to conceal their miraculous powers. After reaching that most gifted state of oneness, they considered showy powers unimportant. These precious abilities are worthless for one who has become unified with his beloved.

Sufis believe that everything is a manifestation of the Divine – even nothingness. Even the void they call a subtle manifestation of the Divine. So they accept all the organic and non-organic beings, regarding all things as beautiful and all beauty as an expression of God’s beauty. Without this, one cannot approach the absolute truth.

Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213-1289), for example, was a great Sufi master who loved young men openly and was criticised by the orthodox mullahs. In his masterpiece, the Lama’at’, Divine Flashes, he wrote:

Although you may not know it,

If you love anyone, it is Him you love;

If you turn your head in any direction,

It is towards Him you turn.

I wish you well on your journey into deepening, spiritual love. Let Ross Heaven be your guide on this journey. The exercises and wisdom you will find in The Way of the Lover will help you attain your heart’s desire. Take inspiration from the stories of the Sufis to bring love and unity into your life. You will gain immeasurably from it.

The Way Of The Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love, by Ross Heaven, is published by Llewellyn (November 1, 2007). ISBN-10: 0738711179

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Let your Emotions Flow With Love Songs

“I hold it true, whate’er befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

‘Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all”

When Lord Alfred Tennyson had written these wonderful lines, he must have thought about those millions of romantics who wander around in this world. History has witnessed that lovers have had a world of their own where there is nobody to perturb them. Being in love is probably one of the most beautiful things that can happen to someone in a lifetime. Love means a world of its own where things are beautiful and everything seems to be as pure as the word love itself. In fact the world of love is a world of variety. There are various forms, shades and moods of love and the only one thing that can complement this diversity of love are love songs. In fact love songs could actually complement your style of love.

In fact love songs are probably one of the best ways to express your love for that someone special. To be very honest love songs can complement your mood. Whether they are romantic and merry love songs or sad and painful love songs, one has to go through that phase of love while singing that song or while penning that song. Love songs have the capability in them to evoke the feeling of love in the one who listens to them. In fact being in love gives one a certain feeling of freedom and this gets very well reflected through the various love songs that talk about new love and how one feels the freshness and the liberty in a newly found love. Again sad love songs can make one weep and feel the pain of lost love or a love that could never bud. Somebody very rightly said that love and music know no bounds and that they have a deep connection between them.

In fact perfect love songs and the perfect atmosphere can make a person easily express his love for that special someone. In fact as I already said love songs have this immense potential in them that can make a person fall in love and can make a person feel the pain of a lost love. At times love can cause immense pain and this pain can be only understood by the ones who have felt it. Love is probably the only thing that can bring to one immense joy as well as heartbreaking pain. The pain of losing your loved one is probably the worst feeling that one can go through. In fact the song “My heart will go on” by Celine Dion still evokes the feeling of the eternal love and the pain that one goes through when one has to lose the love of his life.

These days love songs are not only available in CDs and DVDs but one can find some of the greatest love songs on the internet and can download them and store them for eternity. Love is an eternal feeling and music makes others feel good and when love songs are made they are meant to make the world the most beautiful place to be in. But yes one should always remember that love is the one thing that brings joys as well as the pain.

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How to Know if It’s Really Love? (finding the Real Thing)

“Something is always missing,” Karla said. ”In the beginning of the relationship, he always seems like the perfect one, finally. We’re happy, excited, deeply in love, and then – reality sets in. I start wondering who he really is, and the thrill of seeing him disappears. I look at him and wonder what I loved, I don’t feel beautiful anymore. The light has gone from my eyes.”

Of course the light can never leave Karla, but this experienced of disappointment has taken place because she was in the grip of counterfeit love. She didn’t love her boyfriend, but the illusion she had about him. Most likely she knew little about him. She certain was not in touch with the part of him that was perfect, his true self.

Upset, she talked about her disappointment to a friend. “I loved him so much,” she said. “I thought he was so beautiful, so perfect. Now my dreams are smashed.”

The friend looked at her slowly. “You didn’t love him at all,” she said. “You loved your fantasies about him. If you can know the whole truth, and still love him, then that is really love.”

Falling In Love With Our Fantasies

Karla was in love with her fantasy and then wondered why the love went away. All fantasies fade, they have to – that is the nature of dreams. In the beginning, she felt wonderful, though, and the beauty of it reflected upon her. She felt she must also be perfect, if she could have someone like him. Then reality set in.

Daily life is an opponent of fantasy, it always forces us to be who we are and see what is before us, whether we like it or not. Karla did not like reality, and blamed it upon her boyfriend, not upon her own unwillingness to be with life as it is. She had not yet learned the art of being with life as it is. She hadn’t tasted the real thing. Karla was unable to see the real beauty surrounding her. When we are ready to wake up from fantasies, we find love and joy everywhere.

Throw Away Thoughts Of Imaginary Things

We have little idea how to throw away imaginary thoughts and false expectations. We go to relationships with many demands and expectations. When these expectations are not met, the so-called love we have been feeling turns to hate, resentment, or the feeling that we have been made a fool of. Living in this manner, it is difficult to encounter real lasting love.

When this pattern repeats too many times, some become unable to be in a relationship at all and live protecting themselves from failure and pain. These individuals may not be aware of the deeper problem – that, like Karla, they have been caught in the grip of counterfeit love, which always leaves a person emptier than before. .

Counterfeit Love

Counterfeit love is so common in many ways that we often just take it for granted. In counterfeit love, when we have strong feelings towards someone, we immediately assume that we are in love. As all feelings change most people are convinced that love cannot last. They do not realize that it is the nature of feelings to change, and also the nature of counterfeit love.

Counterfeit love includes the idea that love is a feeling, not a way of life. It is confusion between excitement, dependence, attachment, and the real thing. Real love does not fluctuate. There is no rejection of another person if they do not meet our needs. The nature of our relationship with them may change, but we do not hate or become bitter. Real love never discards anybody; it knows and accepts that true relationship is based upon something deeper than feelings that come and go.

Exercise : Unmasking Counterfeit Love

Describe what love means to you and how a person has to be for you to love him.

Describe some situations in which you felt you had love, only to be disappointed. What did you take to be love that might have merely been infatuation, need, or fantasy?

In your present relationship, for a week, give up one expectation a day. Let the person and relationship be just as they are. Do the same for yourself. See how you and your partner begin to feel.

Keep a diary about this. You’ll be amazed.

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Love on Trial….millions Accuse Love of Unfairness and Deceptionâ?¦â?¦.read All the Juicy Details in This One-of-a-kind Article!

Love on Trial�..Millions accuse Love of Unfairness and Deception��.Read all the juicy details in this one-of-a-kind Article!

The court room was jam-packed, while thousands gathered in the street outside to hear the fate of Love. Love arrived at exactly 9.30 a.m., that morning, and was escorted into the court by four (4) armed policemen ��.accused by millions of lies and inequity in its role as a benefactor of the people.

While this scene transpired, many questioned:

â??Would Love be found guilty, charged and lost in jail? Or would she be freed to function with business as usual?â?

All evidence seemed to purport Loveâ??s guilt and conviction.

For more information, go to: http://www.lulu.com/content/1143716

That dreaded day, accuser after accuser took the witness stand to give their testimonies against Love, while Love silently looked on; undaunted by many who blamed Love for their loss and pain, and sought for justice. â??Love must be made to pay for all the pain Iâ??ve gone throughâ? they vowedâ?¦â?¦

Dear readers, the intention of this article is to only focus on what Lovesâ?? accusers charge, and how Love responded to those allegations.

The following is a summary of just two (2) of those accusations, and loveâ??s defense to them.

ï?§ The first accuser to take the witness stand was: Hurt

Hurt said, â??I believed in Loveâ??s promises, initially, and opened my heart to let love inâ?¦only to have love bring painâ?¦â?¦How could I think good thoughts about Love, anymore, when Love has left me with a broken heart?â?

â??After what Love did to me, I donâ??t ever want to know Love again. In fact, Iâ??m going to pass Love straight whenever I see her. And I wonâ??t recommend Love to anyone, again.â?

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Friends, in defense, Loveâ??s reply was:

â??Hurt, I am not the reason why you were brokenhearted. It was your lack of knowledge, understanding and experience about relationships, which brought you your own pain â?? Not me.â?

â??If you are honest with me, Iâ??m sure you will agree that you didnâ??t listen to my counsel when I tried to warn you, or sent others to instruct youâ?¦..that you were making a mistake by forming a romantic relationship with the guy you claimed I chose for you, but you didnâ??t take my warnings.â?

â??You allowed your feelings to dictate your decisions. And now you have received a broken heart, you blame me for your position?â?

â??Hurt, itâ??s time to take responsibility for your own actions, and stop blaming Love for your poor decisions.â?

â??Itâ??s your lack of knowledge and experience about relationships that caused you pain â?? Not me. Because you failed to practice the basic tenets of Love, you paid with a broken heart. I did not send a broken heart. My rules actually protect you from experiencing a broken heart.â?

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ï?§ â??Hurtâ?? left the stand to allow Loveâ??s next accuser: Low Self Esteem, to testify.

And as Low Self Esteem took the stand, he shouted, â??Love you have your favorites. You only show favor to a selected few!â?

â??Because Iâ??m ugly, and have an average paying job you disliked me, and honored prestigious individuals, instead. How can you say, youâ??re impartial, when itâ??s clear you only choose the pretty/handsome and upper class?â?

â??Love youâ??re not for me. So I wonâ??t waste my time on you – To hell with you!â?

Friends, Loveâ??s response to Low Self Esteem stormy outbursts was typical of Loveâ??s character.

â??Low Self Esteem, my favors are for all. I am not a respecter of persons. Itâ??s your wrong beliefs about me, which have given you the life you now live. You will only have what you believe. If you believe that I am only favorable to the good-looking and upper class, then you will not give me a chance to prove myself, or allow me to freely share my gifts with you.â?

â??Remember, you are Godâ??s creation, and everything He made was good. How can you then call yourself ugly, when He sees you as the apple of His eyes?â?

â??And how can you say that Love is only favorable to the upper class? If you had really known me, you would have known that Love cannot be bought. She always gives herself freely to others, expecting nothing in return. If someone showed up at your door, and said they know me, but is subtly concerned about how much money you possess, or are working for â?? They donâ??t know me. Because I am not about Money, my aim is the heart of individualsâ?¦â?¦..â?

Friends, I have to close this article on this note, but the short and long of it is: Love was proven: â??Not guiltyâ??. And was free to continue her good works, everywhereâ?¦Donâ??t be surprise to see Love shows up at your door volunteering to help you, even if you had been one who had the world of negative things to say about Love. Such is the nature of Love.

Roger Ali Bocus

Author & Motivational Speaker

http://www.lulu.com/content/1143716

Roger Ali Bocus is the author of ten (10) books, a motivational speaker and counselor. Roger is also the Founder and President of a non-profit organization called: The Literary Crusaders â?? An organization whose primary mission is to effect positive and lasting change in the lives of people, worldwide, through the power of the written word.

Roger Ali Bocus

Author & Motivational Speaker

http://www.lulu.com/content/1143716

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Love Should not Change When Alteration Finds

Love should not change when alteration finds.

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Love is an instinct which takes its birth in two hearts simultaneously and once it takes it birth it continues in two hearts and does not change when alteration finds. When people say that they love a person, but there is no response from the other side, such a state of affairs cannot come within the zone of love. One sided love is not love. And when a person starts thinking about the religion of the other party, about his caste, about his economic group, about his country, about his education, about his training and about his adjustment in life, we cannot say that such a person can love another. These are the barriers which would never allow him to love the other person because these barriers have been crated by this man and that is the reason, now, even love affairs could take their birth only when the other party comes within the zone and one is free from these barriers.

We have noted hat even love marriages are not always successful and it is all because the barriers which are enumerated above had been concealed from the other party an once these barriers come up and he other party knows about the same, the marriage bond comes to an end or some difficulties start arising in the relations. That is the reason when a son or a daughter comes to his or her parents and tell about his or her love affairs with a person, the first questions which the parents shall start asking shall be, ‘ what is his religion, what are his parents, what are the status of the family, what is the family’ and if all these points suit them, only then the parents shall say that they shall be meeting the other party and if they are from different religions, if the castes are not suiting them, if economic status is lower, if the education status is not suitable and if the earning capacity of the other partner is not suited to them, they would not agree and the child shall have to break his or her heart. We have seen in India where the new couple has to commit suicide or run away from the family. Here in India even love marriages are solemnized by the parents and if they do not agree, they shall not accept the new couple and the bride shall not be allowed to come in the house of her in laws and the bride groom too shall not accepted in the house of his in laws.

So when such barriers are there in these societies, we cannot say that there could be a love marriage. If there are love marriages, those are just choice of the children and approved by the parents and even these settlements cannot be called love marriages. The marriage of two minds has been established only if the barriers are suited to each other and it means the parties are going ahead with the love affairs if the minimum requirements are being fulfilled and when such conditions are there, we cannot say that the parties are coming near to each other because there is love between the two parties.

When we notice that even in countries where people establish marriage bonds on love, they too do not remain settled for life and we have been given to understand that the divorce cases in those countries are on the higher side. When two people who had solemnized love marriage and then they come to the court for divorcing each other, then it must be understood that they were not in true love. True love would not break in spite of all the hurdles of society and the law. They shall remain one and shall live a happy life. But very rare cases are their where love marriages are sound and they live for each other during the whole life coming to their share. But it is not so and that is the reason, we have to say that there are very rare cases where people could solemnized love marriages. Most of the cases are arranged marriages and that is the reason they break when alteration find. The people are still half way and they would rarely come to a love marriage and when they come, they shall not break from each others. And we must accept that love takes its birth intwo hearts simultaneously and such love is everlasting.

The love stories shown to us through films and love affairs through books are not actually based on love because these people start loving to each other just on first sight and series of circumstances. If two people start loving each other because they are looking smart, beautiful and handsome to each other, then such love affairs are not true love. The true love cannot be defined or spoken, but when love is established in between two parties, then a feeling takes its birth which cannot be explained. That is the reason love could not be defined and there is no chance that this feeling shall get an ultimate definition. Two people know that they love each other, but they are not in a position to defin love. Very few people reach such a state.

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Then We Will Love

Can we officially declare the flu season over and another year passed without pandemic bird flu threatened by gloom and doomsayers? What would we do without those reporters camped out at the Center for Disease Control or embedded with the American Medical Association who chill us with news of the latest medical scourge?

One time there was an epidemic. Rome, in the mid-200’s. It killed so many citizens of the empire historians say it was the economic beginning of the end for the Caesars. It was also the start of the rapid growth of Christianity, and here’s why. While the unbelievers, even the famous doctor and writer, Galen, fled Rome, deserting the dying, the Christians stayed and cared for the afflicted! A third of those cared for by Christians, some strangers and even former persecutors, survived! Many became Christians! Even the most cynical pagan marveled–“See how they love one another!”

I hope we don’t need bird flu next year to move us to show how we love one another. I think Jesus’ words will be motivation enough.

Then We Will Love.

1.For the glory of God (31-33).

2.For the blessing of mankind (34-35).

So many acts of love shine in the darkness. So, too, Jesus’ command to Christian love emerges from the darkness. It was the Thursday before Jesus’ death. He had just predicted Judas betraying him and Judas had just stormed out of the upper room where Jesus and the rest of the disciples would share the Lord’s Supper. John tellingly recalls, “And it was night.”

“When Judas was gone, Jesus said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, then God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once (31-33).’”

Events were set in motion that would lead to Jesus’ death on the cross. It would happen so soon, that Jesus uses this moment to say his final farewell to his disciples. “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come (34).” Well, why would Jesus’ death on the cross bring glory to God, such glory that God himself would glorify the Son?

We’ll get to that in a moment, but I don’t want to pass by that word, glorify. Five times Jesus uses it in two verses. What does it mean to glorify someone? I know what glorified rice is—rice sweetened up with custard and fruit so it has a zillion calories per teaspoon—but what does it mean to glorify someone?

To glorify someone means to have a good opinion about someone, to praise them, to hold them in high esteem. For everyone to do this! Now it is hard to find anyone whom we all hold in high esteem. We all hold President Bush and his policies in high esteem. Um, not all of us. We all hold the Senate majority leader, our Senator Harry Reid in high esteem. Um, not all of us. Governor Gibbons? Nope. Mayor Goodman? Uh-uh. Councilman Andy Hafen? Evidently not if he only won by 162 votes. You see how hard it is for all of us to hold someone in high esteem, to glorify them?

But Jesus’ death on the cross would glorify God. Ever since the Garden of Eden, God has been slandered. The devil tempted Eve, insinuating God was holding out on Eve and jerking her chain. Adam and Eve, when they sinned, hid from God, expecting only punishment from him. When King Ahab meets the prophet Elijah after the famine, he calls God’s prophet, “you troubler of Israel (2 Kings 17).” Don’t you see the reputation God has with those controlled by the sinful human nature? He causes trouble. He mercilessly punishes. He is jealous of our pleasures and tries to limit them.

That’s the way the world still looks at God—he causes troubles in marriages where husband and wife do not share the same faith, so better not to go to church and anger the spouse. He is out to get the “Good Time Charlie” when the liver gives out. Church is the last place the young buck wants to go with his little doe, because he doesn’t want to treat her respectfully and honorably.

No words of appreciation for God from that bunch, from our sinful human nature. But Jesus’ death on the cross reveals these false estimations of God for the lies they are. God is not the troubler—he is the Savior, the reconciler, who knocked off that chip we had on our shoulder. He is not the punishing God, he is the forgiving God whose Son took the punishment of sin upon himself for us. He is the God who wants us to experience lasting and real happiness, not the stolen lust of a moment. He wants us in heaven with him after we have led a happy and productive life we can be proud of here.

Anyone who doesn’t think of God like this really should have his or her head (or heart) examined.

Because Jesus did this, God the Father glorified Jesus by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand, King of kings and Lord of lords.

But what does this have to do with love? Plenty. It is the reason we love!

“A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. All men will know that you are my disciples if you love one another (34-35).”

Remember the Roman plague of 252 AD and the pagan reaction to courageous Christians tending to the sick? Isn’t that what Jesus said would happen? Think of all the hospitals Christians built in this country and throughout the world. If it weren’t for the Lutherans and the Catholics, there wouldn’t be a hospital at all back in my folks’ town of 50,000 people, La Crosse, Wisconsin! Come to think of it, there wouldn’t be any in Henderson, Nevada, 231,000 strong! Orphanages—religious. Even today Catholic Social Services seems to be the biggest place for adoptions in Clark County. Did you know the first Kindergarten in America was started in the town I went to college, Watertown, Wisconsin, by a Lutheran? General charitable giving? Christians lead the pack, outdistancing Muslims, Jews and pagans alike.

What makes this commandment new? Everybody will, to a certain extent, love their friends and hate their enemies. Jesus calls us to love our friends and love our enemies. That’s the parable of the Good Samaritan. That’s the start of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount—bless those who curse you; do good to those who persecute you. In our response to other people’s problems, like hunger in Africa, AIDS, the Christmas tsunami and Gulf Coast hurricanes, we are showing love to others whom we normally wouldn’t even think about.

But what really makes it a new command is the role model. “As I have loved you, so you must love one another (34).” As Jesus loved us. Hmm. Wait! That’s a one-sided love, a love that loves without needing or demanding to be loved back. That kind of love led Jesus to put away the glories and luxuries and perks of heaven to be born in a barn, raised in poverty, be misunderstood by his own people, betrayed by one of his closest friends, dragged before a kangaroo court, publicly executed as a terrible criminal and his lifeless body thrown into a borrowed tomb. He did all this for us, not for himself. He was already 100% God when he put it all away to become human. He couldn’t be 110% God afterwards. There was literally nothing in it for him. He did it all for us, that we might live forever.

“Show that love,” Jesus told his disciples, as he tells us, and everybody will know that you belong to me.

There are two ways to make a church grow. One is preach the Word, but rely on gimmicks to keep the people riled up and excited enough to drag other people in. A lot of the megachurches go in for this and, after a few years, have burned through enough of the population that the charismatic preacher leaves for greener pastures, usually in an even larger church in an even larger metropolitan area.

Here’s the other way, and I will be very blunt to recommend this way to Green Valley Evangelical Lutheran Church. Preach the Word and do what it says. That’s what I have endeavored to do all my years here. I have preached the Word to you, week after week, season after season, year after year. I have loved you, shown you compassion and care, calling you by name, laughing with you, crying with you. I think for that reason almost every one of our members considers me a friend as well as their pastor and the door, if I were on their front step, would open without hesitation.

Do you show that compassion as fellow brothers and sisters in the faith? It is so easy to be caught up with family, to be a slave to the job, to be buried in a busy schedule, or ensnared by the idolatry of sports that America serves. But Jesus did not call us to love our own. He called us to love the other. Jesus did not direct us to shun the Word and the worship, but to flock to it out of habit and custom. Do we know our fellow brothers and sisters in the faith? Do we want to know their needs, so we can pitch in? Do we want to know their strengths so we don’t have to reduplicate their efforts? Do we have a church so caring that an outsider would say, “That’s the church I want to belong to—look how they love one another!”

I say this not to our shame, for I can hardly blame anything in this congregation on my predecessor! He is me! But I say this to urge us all on ever more, as if we were just starting this church out all over again. Don’t let your love for each other grow cold. Make the fellowship of this congregation and service from this congregation a high priority, not just something you will do if there’s nothing else on your calendar.

I’ve preached way too long and it isn’t ending as joyfully as I wanted it to end. But out of the darkness, Jesus’ love calls forth our love. That is always my hope, that the words of Jesus will be realized in each one of us, for

Then We Will Love.

1.For the glory of God (31-33).

2.For the blessing of mankind (34-35).

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The Power Of Love – Discovering The Love That Lies Within Us All

To feel love for someone and their love in return is the most wonderful experience of our lives. When we feel love, we experience joy and fulfillment, but when it is absent we rapidly become unhappy and disillusioned. The search for love defines our lives and plays a critical role in the quality of our relationships. Love really does make our world go round!
Unfortunately we are rarely given any teaching about love, and yet with a little understanding and awareness it can transform our lives. Love can solve problems and heal emotional pain, but only when we allow ourselves to experience its power – we must invite love into our lives.
Consider for a moment the times when you have fallen in love or felt the love of a parent, child or friend. It is almost impossible to describe those comforting feelings of connection and well-being. Notice how anxieties and problems fall away to be replaced by solutions, ease and confidence. There is a timeless quality about love that buoys you up and protects you in even the most despairing of times. You are experiencing the power of love to heal and bring joy and success into your life.
Love is the fundamental truth of life. We are born to love and be loved. It is our natural state. Some people prefer to see this love as a characteristic of our humanity while others prefer to see it as the manifestation of a divine or spiritual source of love. Whatever our personal belief, the power of love is experienced when we connect open-heartedly with others and embrace our natural connections.
Our emotional and relationship problems result from our denial of love – our separation from the love that bonds all people and separation from our higher or spiritual source of love. This denial usually starts when we are very young and has a damaging impact on our lives. Perversely, we invent all manner of negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors to distract us from the love that we already possess. In romantic relationships we then search for love from another person, or try to gain fulfillment from material possessions, to replace the love that we believe is lacking within. This is a terrible mistake because until we have rediscovered self-love, we cannot give or receive love fully from somebody else.
Luckily the best place to work on finding self-love is within a supportive relationship. All relationships have their challenges and it is by working with our partner through the difficult times that a partnership is strengthened. Relationships fail because of our inability to get to the core emotional issues that create the separation. These will be our fears and insecurities and lack of self-belief. In our attempt to hide away any sense of low self-worth we make ourselves unavailable to our partner. It is like building a fortress around ourselves – we think it protects us but in reality it damages or even destroys our relationships.
The way to embrace our loving essence and our natural connections with others is to be willing to feel all our emotions and communicate about them maturely to our partners. We can also ask them about there feelings and commit to working with them to heal any fear.. Normally we will find that they have just the same fears and insecurities as us, but may play them out in different styles. Getting to these core issues is the key to healing the pain and fear in a relationship and to becoming more bonded.
As we achieve such healing within our relationships we will automatically discover more success in our lives, we will feel more fulfilled and this will make us happier. We can all do this if we can find the courage to feel our emotions and reveal them within our relationships. As our hearts open we will feel all the love that has been hidden behind our defenses and our relationships will go from strength to strength.

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God’s Love/hate Relationship With the World

In “Christian Clichés that Contradict Christ” I questioned the truthfulness of six Christian clichés concerning God’s “unconditional” love. There was one more cliché that I wanted to mention but didn’t have enough space, the very common saying, “God loves the sinner but hates his sin.”

This particular cliché is actually more biblically accurate than the six I previously listed, because it attempts to affirm God’s love for sinners while at the same time upholding His holiness. Yet like the six clichés I listed last month, this one also falls short of the full truth, and it can thus be misleading to people and damaging to Christ’s cause. Why do I say this? One reason is because Scripture not only teaches that God loves sinners, but also that He hates them. Surprised? Read for yourself:

The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity. You destroy those who speak falsehood; the Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit (Ps. 5:5-6, emphasis added).

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates (Ps. 11:5, emphasis added).

I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul [God’s people Israel] into the hand of her enemies. My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest; she has roared against Me; therefore I have come to hate her (Jer. 12:7-8, emphasis added).

All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels (Hos. 9:15, emphasis added).

These verses of scripture are all in your Bible as well as mine! Your Bible declares that God hates “all who do iniquity” (Ps. 5:5). Since all unregenerate people “do iniquity,” we can conclude that God hates them all. (Incidentally, this verse among many others leads us to believe that God’s “free gift of righteousness” is more than just a legal standing of righteousness that results in no practical righteousness, otherwise God would hate His own children.)

But how can it be true that God both loves and hates sinners? The only way to reconcile this apparent contradiction is to once again recognize that not all love is the same. As I stated in last month’s e-teaching, some love is conditional, what I referred to as “approving love,” and some love is unconditional, what I referred to as “merciful love.” From the standpoint of His merciful love, God loves sinners (see Eph. 2:4-6; Tit. 3:5; 1 Pet. 1:3, and look for the word mercy). But from the standpoint of his approving love, God utterly hates them—they are in fact abhorrent to Him. Can you imagine how you would feel if you had created a race of people who inwardly knew just how to please you yet who ignored and disobeyed you continually, even using your name as a curse word? Might you not be somewhat upset with them?

Note that all of the above-quoted scriptures do not say that God only hates what people do—they say He hates them.We cannot separate a person from what he does.What a person does reveals his character—who he is. Thus if God disapproves of sin He of course must disapprove of sinners. God is so pure that His disapproval is very strong, and the word hate describes it well.To separate the sin from the sinner by saying “God loves the sinner but hates the sin” is potentially misleading.

Other scriptures declare that certain people—not just what those people do—are an abomination to God.See, for example, Deut. 22:5, 16; Lev. 26:29-30; Ps. 5:5-6; Prov. 3:32, 11:20, 16:5, 17:15. Beyond that, there are many other expressions of God’s hatred of certain people in Scripture. For example, when we read, “the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah” (2 Kin. 23:26), we don’t get the impression that we are reading about God’s love for sinners.

Regrettably,very little is said of God’s hatred or abhorrence of sinners among modern Christians. Most preachers, it seems, emphasize God’s love for sinners, and their audiences consequently are often misled into thinking that God approves of them in spite of their sin, which couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is that God utterly hates them, but He is mercifully giving them time to repent and gain His approval before they die, and only in that sense does He love them. When they die His mercy ends, and they will then experience the fullness of His hatred. The people in hell do not think that God loves them. They all know that He utterly hates them. And the truth is that when they were alive He hated them just as thoroughly, but then He showed them mercy, or merciful love. If unrepentant people who are still alive knew how much God hates them, they would be astounded at His merciful love towards them.

This also indicates to us that God’s holy hatred of sinners and His merciful love toward them are not contradictory aspects of His character. Rather, they perfectly blend together. God’s mercy is magnified even more by His holy hatred, and vice versa. Preachers who want to emphasize God’s true love for sinners must first emphasize His holy hatred for them.

If the history of revival teaches us anything, it teaches us that revival occurs when people are awakened, not to some false concept of a grandfather God who “loves everyone unconditionally,” but when they realize their present precarious condition before a holy and wrathful God. For example,Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards, whom God used as a instrument of revival during America’s Great Awakening in the 1740s, certainly didn’t mislead his congregation about their slippery state before God. In his classic sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Edwards simply affirmed biblical truth about God’s attitude toward the unrepentant:

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment….O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder…

What a picture of God’s anger and His mercy! Although Jonathan Edwards witnessed wonderful revival in his church and community, he was ultimately dismissed from his pastorate for holding to his biblical convictions. Only preachers who truly love their audiences and who aren’t afraid of losing popularity and money can possibly preach such truth. Of course, Jesus was one of those kinds of preachers. Never once did He tell an unsaved audience that God loved them, and there is only one record of His telling one unregenerate individual one time about God’s love for the world (and that is found in John 3:16). Rather, Jesus regularly warned sinners of God’s wrath and called them to repentance (see, for example, Matt. 4:17; 5:22, 29-30, 8:11-12; 10:28; 11:20-23; 13:41-42, 49-50; 18:19; 22:13; 23:33; 24:50-51; 25:30). What Jesus told one person one time we have made our universal theme to the unsaved, and what He constantly emphasized to them we have kept a secret! Are we really being seeker-sensitive with our non-offensive evangelistic sermons, or are we actually ashamed of Jesus and His words? (See Luke 9:26.) Why are so many pastors afraid to tell the biblical truth even to professing Christians in the church? What does that reveal about those pastors? What does that reveal about their congregations?

John the Baptist, whom Jesus called the greatest man who ever lived (Matt. 11:11), never mentioned God’s love when he preached the gospel (see Matt. 3:1-12; Luke 3:1-18). He sounded much like Jonathan Edwards, warning his audiences of God’s coming wrath. Likewise, there is not a single case in the book of Acts where anyone preaching the gospel told an unsaved audience that God loved them. Rather, the biblical preachers warned their audiences that God did not approve of them, that they were in danger, and that they needed to make dramatic changes in their lives. Had they only told their audiences that God loved them and all they need to do was “accept Christ as Savior” (as do so many modern ministers), they may have misled them into thinking that God approved of them, that they were in no danger, were not storing up wrath for themselves, and had no need to repent. This is of vital importance, because salvation cannot occur without repentance. Jesus told His apostles to “preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Luke 24:47). We may be filling churches with evangelistic messages about God’s love, but are we filling heaven?

God’s love is greatly distorted when modern preachers, under the influence of pop psychology (whether they realize it or not) tell their unsaved audiences how Christ’s death proves their value before God. “You were worth dying for” they say. Even the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price is perverted to show supposedly that Christ gave up everything to gain what was of inestimable value—us! (Wasn’t God blessed to get YOU?) Paul, however, stood amazed, not at how the cross proved the alleged value of a race of rebels, but how it displayed God’s amazing merciful love, because Jesus wasn’t dying for good people, but for ungodly sinners(see Rom. 5:6-10). His death saved us, not from underestimating our true worth, but from God’s righteous wrath that we all fully deserve(see Rom. 5:6-10). Apart from God’s holy hatred of sinners, His love for them is essentially meaningless.

Why don’t we follow the example of Jesus and John the Baptist, telling the unrepentant the truth found in Scripture?:

God is a righteous judge,

And a God who has indignation every day.

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;

He has bent His bow and made it ready (Psalm 7:11-12).

This is the biblical picture of God’s love toward the unrepentant. His merciful love restrains Him from releasing the arrow that He has already drawn in His bow, the arrow that is tenuously aimed in righteous indignation at every sinner. This is a biblical example that would have fit right into Jonathan Edward’s sermons, or John the Baptist’s.

The unsaved inside and outside the church are under a huge delusion as they mistake God’s mercy for His approval. They will be shocked at their judgment, just like the goats Jesus described in Matthew 25:31-46. They don’t understand that God is very kind to His enemies, so they imagine that they are at peace with Him. What a tragedy it is when the church reinforces this delusion. I’m afraid that the bumper sticker that says, “Smile, God Loves You!” speaks volumes about modern theology and evangelistic preaching. Should we really be encouraging hell-bound rebels whom God utterly abhors, to smile”God’s Love/Hate Relationship with the World”, the 2nd article on the conditional love of God ©2007 David Servant and ShepherdServe.org. You are welcome to repost this article as long as the article is unaltered and kept in its entirety (with all links and credits attached), and is not sold for profit.

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