Sunday, October 9, 2011

An Answer

I find this really interesting. That a non-christian, worldly famous person can get something so spot on and yet miss something so large.

His thoughts I believe are completely true, love is the answer to all those things, and more. But then we get an interesting little passage in 1 John 4:7 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love."


God is love. The Trinity in fact is the only being that can be love because it has other entities to love on- love requires an otherness and an ability to pour out of yourself. So the father, son and Spirit and son existing in this dance of humility and servanthood are the perfect example of love to us.

So, what is sacred? A God of love who in his holiness still chose to come for us.
What is the Spirit made? We are made in God's image and have an innate desire for love and acceptance. That is why romantic movies and love is an eternal concept- because it literally is an eternal concept.
What is worth living for? A God who loved me first and has a purpose and plan.
What is worth dying for? As John says later on in 1 John 4 "In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins."
God showed us what love worth dying for looked like.

Thanks Johnny Depp, you're alright for a scissor handed butcher-pirate, lolly shop owner.

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