tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post76986261451156041..comments2024-01-20T06:33:12.603-08:00Comments on Created to Give God Glory: Everything Changes When You Become a ChristianCreated to Give God Gloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17298394573836878999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post-44419445004656410582013-07-28T12:13:21.519-07:002013-07-28T12:13:21.519-07:00Loved this analogy and will be revisiting it. As ...Loved this analogy and will be revisiting it. As usual, perfect timing. DebAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post-64439529030068037402013-07-28T07:41:32.562-07:002013-07-28T07:41:32.562-07:00This you said, You can act like you are but it onl...This you said, <i>You can act like you are but it only causes you pain because you have hurt the One you love. </i>, is interesting, and is worth thinking about.<br /><br />Perhaps, it is NOT on becoming a Christian, we no longer is able to do the things we formerly did (we surely is able to, not impossible), but it is such things would pain us in a new way, for we have come into a new love relation between God and us. Before entry into salvation, it is God loving us, but there is no love relationship, for we have NOT loved back. It hurts BOTH us and God, for it hurts when there is a relation underpinning.<br /><br />Isn't it true, when we truly have recognized there is a relation, we will feel pain/hurt when we do an unkind or wrongful act against "the someone". If you think about it, in many places, in NT scriptures, the underlying thread has been that there is a relation that God wanted us to see and embrace. <br /><br />For example, talk of the body/church is telling us, we are in the relation of being brethren.<br /><br />When we embrace Christianity, we embrace God as the Creator of us, men, making us, believers, and the non-believers, in the relation of being fellow pinnacle creation of God, and so, we ought to love fellow men, even when they are non-believers. <br /><br />Isn't it true, the one who easily does unkind or wrongful act against another, he does NOT recognize a relation with the person, or that he does not value the relation much. Only when we recognize a relation and place importance in it, that we would consider putting ourselves in the shoes of the other person. The call to love our neighbors as ourselves, is in the same light. <br /><br />When we come into salvation, we come into the realization, alignment and embracing of God ordained relations. And the thread through the relations, is love unto righteousness ('ahab love). <br /><br /><br />Anthony Chia, high.expressionsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com