In the midst of revision and the general madness of life (yes, I know, crazy, I'm a busy english student at the moment) I have been reminded of something lately.
Even if you don't think its true, it is. Even if you don't want it to be true, it is. And even if you don't think you need to hear it, I can assure you, you do.
God knows all about you. Sounds scary, doesn't it? But there's more. God loves you. Actually those words don't come close. He is passionately in love with you, he loved you when he made you, and he loves you still. I always think the most amazing thing about that is not just that he loves other people. It's that he loves me, even though I know what I am really like. Breathtaking, really.
But there's more. God actually understands you.
I say to myself: 'no-one understands me', God says 'I do'.
I say to myself: 'no-one takes me seriously', God says 'I do'.
Ok, here's the last astonishing thing (though I could go on and on) God wants to have a relationship with us. Hold up there, this is not just any old Mr Smith wanting a relationship with you here. This is God, the creator, the first mover, the beginning, the end, the always, GOD. He wants a relationship. Not to dictate to us, not to command us, but to have a relationship with us.
Why am I suddenly coming out with all this?
Well, I guess I need to remind myself of it.
But also it needs to be said, because it is Truth.
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"Not to dictate to us, not to command us, but to have a relationship with us."
Then why for the Commandments?
I suppose you'll say that we only have to love God and our neighbour as ourself (though feel free to correct me). Are these the two things that you believe we should do in life?
Vinay
Interesting point Vinay my man, and I'd definitely say the commandments are still hugely important guidelines for how we should live life today. But at the same time God knows that we can never really keep them however hard we try to. I mean, we all screw up time after time however well intentioned we are. AND YET God still wants us to come to the decision to have a relationship with him. Doesn't that make it all the more amazing that he wants a relationship with me?! As a Christian, I don't have to live to fulfill a set of requirements, or to have a certain number of ticks against my name. Because Jesus has already paid the price for the times I muck up, I need to follow Him first and foremost, not any commandments. Of course, as a natural result of following Christ I seek to live the way that God intended me to...
So it seems there isn't such thing as a good or a bad Christian, for the requirement is to follow Christ. It just makes me wonder what incentive it gives to lead a moral life? We can never achieve a satisfactory level of being good - so what's the point? Is there not then argument for going out and living your life in a manner you feel is most fun (even if it is sordid or depraved by biblical standards)?
I realise it's not quite so easy for me to grasp what you feel because I do not. Mayhap this is because of this:(refering to 2 John 1.7 - 1.9 in the NIV)
"Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God"
To me it seems, I do 'not have God.' I don't deny Christ existed but I don't know about the Godhood. I have not felt anything to compell me more (on feeling this is) towards any one religions assertion of truth.
Definately a pickle.
Vinay
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