harryhebert
September 10th 2004, 06:33 PM
The Will of Love
The will of God is not discernable to mortals disinclined to hear the will of love. Futile indeed is it to love men’s souls while discounting a love for men. Spiritual pride blinds us from realizing that the desire to do good has its origin in God. We miss opportunity to edify men as we accept glory for ourselves as "good-deed-doers" when in fact men should be informed that they are the recipients of their Father’s love for them which we have enacted.
God’s love passes through us and we perceive a desire to do good unto others, but mind you, we function not as originators but rather as partners as we perceive the Father’s love for his creatures which is His will pertaining to them. We may elect, while thus encircuited with this perception, to adapt His will as our own and cheerfully cooperate with Him in His loving of His children, our brothers. In so choosing, we are implementing His will that we have adopted as our own.
As one grows spiritually, one is gifted with ideas of many things, many actions, and many words that would be helpful if acted upon. If Jesus enjoyed doing little things for people, we know that the Father does as well. Good results from the implementation of ideas received.
Jas:1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
You must realize that the idea to do a loving thing is a good gift that is from above. You may be creative by responding to and cooperatively implementing an idea received, but if honest, you will attribute the idea to God. Much of Jesus’ discourse was designed to repeatedly inform his students that good was done by His Father and not by himself unaided. We may perceive and choose the will of God and move in tandem with it, but that hardly makes us the author of good.
Harry Hebert
The will of God is not discernable to mortals disinclined to hear the will of love. Futile indeed is it to love men’s souls while discounting a love for men. Spiritual pride blinds us from realizing that the desire to do good has its origin in God. We miss opportunity to edify men as we accept glory for ourselves as "good-deed-doers" when in fact men should be informed that they are the recipients of their Father’s love for them which we have enacted.
God’s love passes through us and we perceive a desire to do good unto others, but mind you, we function not as originators but rather as partners as we perceive the Father’s love for his creatures which is His will pertaining to them. We may elect, while thus encircuited with this perception, to adapt His will as our own and cheerfully cooperate with Him in His loving of His children, our brothers. In so choosing, we are implementing His will that we have adopted as our own.
As one grows spiritually, one is gifted with ideas of many things, many actions, and many words that would be helpful if acted upon. If Jesus enjoyed doing little things for people, we know that the Father does as well. Good results from the implementation of ideas received.
Jas:1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
You must realize that the idea to do a loving thing is a good gift that is from above. You may be creative by responding to and cooperatively implementing an idea received, but if honest, you will attribute the idea to God. Much of Jesus’ discourse was designed to repeatedly inform his students that good was done by His Father and not by himself unaided. We may perceive and choose the will of God and move in tandem with it, but that hardly makes us the author of good.
Harry Hebert