"Jesus said it is all about love, but we want to make this Christian life about everything else (Matt. 22: 37-40) We want it to be about rules or spiritual formulas or how we can impress God or win His favor. We have put the Great Commission before the GREAT COMMANDMENT."--Jack Frost
I've been reading a book about really experiencing God's love and sharing it (see above)...as a person who is prone to performance-orientation and who enjoys a good functioning formula, I know how easy it is to fall into just going through the motions of Christianity...DOING all of the right things but not BEING an accurate representation of Christ to the world. God is LOVE...we need to BE LOVE. I know it is far more challenging for me to wake up everyday and love people than it is to follow rules...people hurt you, they misread you, and they pass judgments without knowing your heart BUT that is why continuing to flow from that place in your heart is so important...because that is the only way they can know the LOVE (=GOD) that animates you beyond performance and into the intensely personal and the swirling beauty where authenticity of the spirit dwells.
So what if the truth looks a little tie-dyed and sounds like rock-n-roll?!? I'll take PEACE and LOVE over the starchy robotic living out of "new laws" any day!!!
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