If God is love (which He is) and we believe that we are God's representatives then shouldn't our first response be to love? For the longest time I have felt more and more strongly that God wants us to live simply. He will continue to bring revelation and new words and heal and do miracles, but He will do it all out of love. And His instructions are really clear: "Jesus said, 'Love the LORD your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them." Matthew 22: 37-40, The Message This kind, beautiful, strong, gentle man, Jesus, loved people. He lived among people and laughed with them. He favored the company of "sinners" to that of the religious "right." Passing along, Jesus saw, a man at hi...
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