more notes on love

I am now going to address the concept of having God use you.

This is something you hear people say in churches a lot, "I wish God would use me."

It is ok to want to work with God to bring about his veiw of things and his reality to your world. This is a good and fine desire.

However, God is ultimately more concerned with you, and loving you, than he is with using you. I believe this is why he does not answer many people's prayers to "Use me."

If he were to use you, this would indicate that he was more concerned with getting his purposes accomplished than he was with you. And this is simply not true. God is more concerned with you, and loving you, than he is with getting his purposes accomplished. I believe that there are millions of people who are not yet secure enough in his love to be used by him.

And beside that, the concept of using another person to accomplish your own goals is a sinful concept, something God will not do.

Think about it in human relationships. We know that when we use somebody else to accomplish our purpose, it is evil. When other people become tools for me to get what I want done, it is wrong. When I use, manipulate, or coerce others to get what I want, it is sin.

Love always, inerrantly, sets free. This is a characteristic, a part, of love. God is love. God will always, inerrantly, set you free. This is who he is.

God does not want slaves. God is highly against slavery. It is evil to him, and He will not ever enslave anyone.

Here is the point. God is more concerned with you than he is with getting his circumstances the way he wants them. Because he is love, and he cannot be otherwise. He is willing to risk not having his circumstances how he would prefer them to be in order to love you, because he values you more than having his circumstances how he wants them. This is God's primary goal, love. Because that's who he is. He can't do otherwise.

God will not use you. God will love you, and when you are set absolutely 100% free by his astonishing, pure love, you will set the world on fire, for God. And THAT is what people mistakenly refer to as "being used by God"!

PURSUE LOVE. WITH GOD. DO NOT PURSUE TO BECOME SPIRITUAL. DO NOT TRY TO BECOME GOOD. PURSUE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

Relationship is the meaning of life! Love is the meaning of life.

A little reality can't hurt

The main purpose of life is love. Relationships with people. This includes our Father, the creator. People should be using their circumstances to better know God and to know people. The opposite, what much of the world does, is use people (including God) to better their circumstances.

This is backwards. You must subject your circumstances to your relationships, and not the other way around. People, loving people, God included, is more important than having what we want. We must be willing to suffer, to do without, to live in what is less than our ideal for the sake of relationships. Relationships come first.

wanting good circumstances is fine. Wanting what you want is fine. Pursuing what you want is fine. Until you have to use somebody else to get it. AT THAT POINT, it becomes sin. Up to that point, it is simply being human. Which is fine.

Love will always benefit you at my expense. I will do without what I want if I have to use you, manipulate you, or hurt you to get it. Because YOU are more important than me getting what I want.

The goal of life is RELATIONSHIPS. This is why we were created. This is what we will be doing for eternity. Subject your circumstances to your relationships, that you might not miss out on the main purpose of being alive!

the purpose of life

The purpose of life is relationship. Love is the purpose of life.

Do not seek to be righteous, don't try to be spiritual, don't try to become anything. Try to love!

some more notes on freedom

People go on and on about freedom, and how it is their right to do whatever they want, and if you don't agree then you are infringing on their freedom.

These people are correct! The problem is, that freedom must be tempered by love, which says that "I will benefit you at my own expense."

When freedom is not tempered by love, it will hurt someone.

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Some notes on freedom.

People have life confused. They think that the highest goal of life is security. This is not true. The highest goal of life is love. And love always sets you free. God is love, and God always sets you free. Because that's who he is. He cannot do otherwise.

With freedom, though, comes risk. And danger. Set someone free and you introduce them to risk, danger, and possible failure. This is the risk God is willing to take, because He loves you so much.

Therefore, security is the wrong goal to pursue in life. If you want guaranteed security, there is always a price to pay. And that price is your freedom.

PURSUE LOVE!

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God does not want you afraid of him. You cannot be friends with anyone that you are afraid of. And since God is love, which means that he wants to be friends with you, how can you possibly remain afraid of him? You cannot!