Monday, September 6, 2010

Love Letters II

I am so thankful to belong to you.

Although I know I can never be you, I can try. I know you would not have me as anything other than myself, yet I yearn to be more. What else is the soul to crave, once it has tasted perfection?

You knew when we would meet, and that eventually, I would have no one else but you. In every step of my life, you knew me, and I have been blessed to know you. There's no need to make it complicated. In fact, there is a great need in this world to make things simple. I love you because you love me. I need you because you are the only thing that's real.

Where I go, you go. Where you go, I go. Your plans are my plans, because they bring me joy. Because it is not about where we go when we die or the rewards we get. It's about living with you. It's about having this one life with you, to share. The idea of nonexistence after death does not settle with the heart, and yet I cannot imagine what Heaven could be, and I do not believe in Hell. I would have my Heaven here and now with you, where I know you exist. I would not wait to become nothing.

6 comments:

  1. Hey Theresa!

    A beautiful description of how our hearts long for the union we will one day experience with our Father. David was in the habit of expressing these longings of our spirit & souls...being as how his heart was declared to be one after our Father's, I would have to insist that yours is one of similitude.

    Unfortunately hell is a very real place--however, the alternative emotion is one of sincere amazement & thankfulness that we will be permitted to spend our eternity with Him--the Lover of our souls :) W/o Him we are nothing...because of His influence and existence in our lives: well, we are over-comers and more than conquerors!

    Thank you so much for sharing!

    Daniel

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  2. Hi Daniel!

    Thanks for dropping in. :) I will reserve my ideas of Hell for when (if) I find myself in Heaven. I like to think of the two more as states of the soul... but who knows what happens to the soul if it dies in a state of hell. There are many lost, lonely people out there. I would like to think that we are all given peace when we die, somehow.

    But yes, I love God very much. :D And I know you do too!

    I hope you're doing well, been praying for you!

    -Theresa

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  3. There is most definitely a Hell--Jesus talks about Hell many times in the Gospels. But Hell may be different than we think. I met a Christian in Mackay, Idaho, and he thought that Hell was a place where your passions are unbridled--there will be no quenching the fire of your passions: lust, anger, covetousness, any kind of sin.

    We are here on this earth to submit ourselves to Christ and take up our cross and die daily. We can experience the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. But we must die to self--to selfish passions. The Lord will always give us the strength to overcome our besetting sins.

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  4. Hi Tim!

    Hell is no worse than being blind to God, and I think we've all been there. God does not punish; man punishes. God is perfect love. I don't believe anything I read in the Bible about punishment and Hell because God has shown me differently. God would never allow a small, tiny soul to be punished for what suffering has already bred into it. Why create humans to be flawed, and then punish them for their flaws? Suffering does not cure suffering.

    I can have Christ and not take the Bible literally. In fact, I can have God without Christ. We can all have God and just call it God and love it and be good to it and never have to make it any more complicated than that.

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  5. The Lord is a God of love and a God of judgment. The Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for sin; the Lord destroyed San Francisco in 1906 for sin; the Lord destroyed New Orleans in 2005 for sin.

    The great gift that God gave us was when He sacrificed His son Jesus Christ on the Cross for our sins. It is the Blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from sin. The Lord is angry with the wicked everyday: the Blood of Jesus appeases His wrath--for those who accept Jesus into their lives.

    The Lord does not put anyone in Hell--we do, by not accepting the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. If the Lord does not punish anyone for sin, what kind of God is that? Jesus took our punishment for us at the Cross, so that we wouldn't have to.

    The reason we are flawed is because of Adam's disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Adam tried to hide his sin by sewing fig leaves together. The Lord covered Adam's sin when the Lord killed a lamb and gave Adam and Eve lambskins to wear. And, of course, this was a foreshadowing of the Lamb of God (Jesus) who later took away the sin of the world.

    It is through the Precious Blood of Jesus that we are able to cry Abba, Father. It is through Jesus that we get to the Father. People who reject Christ can't be good or be good enough to go to the Father. We cannot work ourselves to be good. It is by Grace through Faith that we are saved. After we are saved can the Lord work through us.

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  6. Maybe it's time for new thought. Knowing God is beyond the interpretation of the mind. It can only be experienced. God is not angry at the wicked. God loves the wicked and wants to heal the wicked just as much as he wants to heal the righteous, even more so. Christ wasted no time with men of the cloth, because Christ knew that it is the wicked who suffer the most, and who are in the most need of love.

    God made me as I am and saved me as a child and gave me a mind to think and blessed me with logic, grace, and the disposition of a teacher. God is asking for change. A new era is coming. God wishes to unite the world, and the world will not be united under Christianity. It will be united by Love, by a new message, by a new faith.

    Our love of God is the same, let's not debate these things, it is hurtful and displeasing to the spirit. We each have our work to do, and we are not meant to understand God's will, or God's purpose. Think what you will, but my heart is in God and that will never change.

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