This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:16-18
We now come to an amazing text regarding love and what it really is. The concept of Christian love, love of our brother or sister, is not merely an abstract idea; it is a reality of life that requires action. John gives us the model of Christ as the example of what love looks like in action. Jesus loved us, and so He set His own life aside so that we might live. In the same way, John calls upon us to set aside our own lives for the sake of others. This may not necessarily require our physical death, for there is more to the teaching of Christ than that− it will most certainly require that we set our interests aside to serve others.
John uses the specific example of one who has material resources giving them to a brother or sister who is in need. How can we possibly sit by and let our brother or sister suffer when we have the means to bring relief; to do so is not showing the person love. We can think of other circumstances in which we may have what a hurting person might need, and we must not withhold aid, even though giving aid can be quite inconvenient. Very often these days, we may come across a brother or sister who has emotional pain, and we must be ready to give whatever comfort and relief that we can.
Whatever the particular case may be, we must understand that loving one another doesn’t simply mean to be nice, it means to put others first in thought, and deed as well as in words. This is what it means to follow Jesus Christ; this is what it means to love one another.
Welcome back to the bus! We’re back on the road again on our journey of discovery, as we explore this theory:
“Christian theology is not particularly difficult to understand. Its precepts and premises are fairly simple, it was given to “regular” guys to share with the world, and they did it. Yes, of course they had a lot of help from the Holy Spirit, but then so do we. Yet we love to argue, follow tradition and form to avoid spiritual growth and reaching out, because they are counter-intuitive, and the fact that they are counter-intuitive is exactly the point of all things being new, for our human intuition isn’t new, it’s the old thing that Jesus died to free us from.”
As we arrive here at Relationship Camp, I’ve broken our day’s session into two parts. First, we’ll look at our relationship with God, and later, we’ll look at our relationships with other people. So, here we go looking into our relationships with God…
I would have to say that roughly half of the nearly 6,000 posts on this blog to date, are about our relationship with God. I’ve posted about it from an academic/theological point of view, from an anecdotal point of view, from a relational point of view and in the narrative form, so I think the best way to proceed in this particular post is by relating general concepts, and that will keep with the method of the entire road trip, for this is not a technical or exhaustive study, but a conceptual one.
The first thing for us to always remember is that we have a relationship with God because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, where He shed His blood so that our sins can be forgiven. We choose to be in relationship with Him by responding to the message of the Gospel, and when we do so, our sins are forgiven and we receive the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is this Holy Spirit within us that gives us direct relationship to God.
To experience this relationship, we need to seek His presence in our lives. We seek Him through the Scriptures. We seek Him through prayer, and we seek Him through study and reflection. Some of us may do a better job of these things than others, but there is something else that we might consider here.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Simple, isn’t it, to know God’s will for you! Let’s take a closer look…
Rejoice always
To say this, and then to say it’s God’s will for you, implies that Paul has said it in the imperative. “Hey, you over there! Rejoice!” If it can be commanded, then it can be chosen, so rejoice always. When things don’t go our way, we have a choice: We can let the circumstances get to us, or we can choose to rejoice in the Lord anyway.
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24 (KJV)
See where the choice is made? (“We will“) I’ve tried this and it works. OK, I’ll admit that if there is enough headaches and hassles, sometimes I waiver, but it normally takes quite a bit. Let’s just rejoice in our Lord even though it is sometimes counter-intuitive.
Pray continually
A special time of prayer and reflection are great, and I encourage everyone to do it, but it isn’t the only thing. In fact, it’s the “beginner’s” thing. The “Big Boys” never stop! Seek God’s presence through constantly talking to God as you go through your day. It is very hard work to be ticked off in the presence of God! Tell God how much you love Him. Tell Him that you are serving Him because you love Him. Talk to God about your business, school or household activities and ask for His blessing or guidance upon them. Tell Him that you want to do an especially good job at what you have to do because as His Ambassador, you want to serve Him because of how much you love Him. Ask God to present you with opportunities to share His good news. Do this in the morning as you drive to work, later do this through your work day. Do this in the afternoon. Do it in the evening, and do it some as you drift off to sleep. You will be in His presence all the time, and your rejoicing will increase. The more we continue in this way, the more aware we will be of His presence, the more we will learn to view the world around us through His eyes, and not our own.
An interesting thing I’ve noticed here is that I view the world with a great deal less condemnation than I used to. Oh, I see the godless stuff more clearly than ever, but my attitude is different; I yearn for its deliverance and emancipation from the evil that is so common. I now feel for people like I haven’t before. Things bother me much less than they used to, because I know that God is working His plan in and around me, and even though there are trials for me personally, I am excited to see how God has it all turning out. Do this, even though it may seem strange (because it is counter-intuitive for many of us) you will be blessed beyond measure in His presence.
Give thanks in all circumstances
It’s easy to give thanks when you get that big raise and promotion, but when you get the layoff notice, “thanks” isn’t the first word you might think of. Yet, we know that God loves us. We know that He has gone to extreme lengths to set us free from sin and death, and we know that He has plans for us. Just because business goes wrong doesn’t mean that anything has changed; a new chapter has begun. Where will it lead, what new experiences will we have in His presence… is there a better job around the corner? I can’t really say, but I’ve been around a long time, had many trials and challenges, and God has always worked things out for me. Maybe not always to my liking at a given moment, but things have ended up better in the end. Sometimes we go through “hard times” in this life in an economic sense, and grow by leaps and bounds at the same time spiritually. Money will pass away, but our spirits are eternal; keep things in perspective and rejoice, pray continually and always be thankful.
This is all simple stuff. Don’t get me wrong, it is very profoundly important, but it isn’t complicated. Even when your natural inclination might be to go in a different direction, seek His presence, and your joy will be complete in Him.
“I will sing of your love and justice; to you, LORD, I will sing praise. I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? “
Psalm 101:1-2a
David expresses what it is to live a godly life in this passage; recognize who and what God is, and respond. To consider God’s love and justice is certainly an awesome thing, and to take that all in and not respond with praise is almost unbelievable.
Yet, it isn’t just praise with which we should respond for in light of God’s justice, we also must respond in the way we live our lives. David says that he will endeavor to lead a blameless life, and while he fell short of that goal, the Bible records that he was a “man after God’s own heart”.
I cannot claim to be blameless in my life, and I suspect that I have quite a bit of company in this, yet I believe that it is for us to respond to God with our best effort. By His mercy, we’ll get there yet, and maybe we’ll bring a ray of His light into a troubled world.
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How should a genuine seeker go about finding God? As it often does, the Bible gives us a wonderfully simple and mysterious answer. If a person wants to find God, he must seek him with all his heart and soul (Deuteronomy 4:29). And yet, if anyone would come to Jesus, it must be granted by the Father (John 6:44). Two things must happen: a person must seek God, and God must reveal himself. But just what should it look like exactly for a person to seek God with all his heart and soul? Today when the term “seeker” comes up, we think of people who have genuine curiosity or openness to religion. But the Bible does not say that God is looking for “seekers.” He is looking for worshippers. And he will not reveal himself to anybody based on whatever terms a person may dictate. In this short post, I won’t offer a comprehensive treatise on how to seek God. But I would like to offer one essential part of the answer. God will not be found by men and women who do not have humble hearts. A person must go low to meet the Most High God. The Bible frames the pursuit of God as always something more than an intellectual quest. Perhaps the only person who radically encounters God in his pride is Paul, who is then transformed with humility afterwards. The normative pattern we see in scripture is encountering God through lowliness. God himself said “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit” (Isaiah 57:15). It is the humble and faith- filled persistence of the Syrophoenician woman who finds God in a miraculous healing. It is only through his humility and repentance that David can find fresh fellowship with God once again. God is even moved by the humble prayer of King Manasseh, despite his wickedness, to bring him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then there’s the wise men, who come looking for Jesus but doing so as worshippers. This echoes CS Lewis’ insight, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” The modern conception of someone who seeks God as a mere intellectual enterprise is completely foreign to scripture. And the irony is that seeking for God merely intellectually could easily inflate a man’s pride. As his heart lifts itself higher, he may, as Lewis wrote, find himself looking down on things and people—and missing what is above him. But where does this leave the unbeliever? Shall he humble himself and call out to God in prayer like David and King Manasseh? He should. But here we run into a problem. We may say a non-believer could find God through prayer. But how can a non-believer pray to a God he doesn’t yet believe exists? Shall we ask him to sacrifice his intellectual honesty and integrity? Should he just fake it till he makes it? We’ve got a circular problem. Unbelief is short circuiting the very channel through which he may be granted belief! What are we to do?
Scripture itself provides a precedent for praying to God even if you don’t have clarity about his character. Paul writes in Romans 1 that based on creation alone, it is evident that there is some very powerful and eternal being. This fact by itself Paul says, is enough to obligate a person to give thanks to such a being. I would argue that the non-believer does not need to pretend that he believes in such a God. He does not need to fake it. There are enough reasons to make it reasonable (such that his intellectual honesty would not need to be sacrificed) to humbly reach out to such a God in prayer. Similarly, a non-Christian does not need to embrace every point of the traditional doctrine of sin in order to humble himself. Our consciences bear witness to us that we have fallen short of the glory of God. The seeker may not use that language, and that seems fine to me. The point is that all of us are intimately acquainted with our shortcomings. I believe that confessing them and sincerely reaching out this eternal and powerful being can be done sincerely by an open, but non-Christian seeker. There’s no need at this point to embrace every part of Christian doctrine. What’s needed is a contrite and lowly spirit. And if such a seeker is willing to go low, and then even lower, he will find the one who has been highly exalted and given “the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
1 John 3:11-15
Well, we have heard this message from the beginning, that we should love one another. A quick look through Christian blogs will reveal that everybody writes about it at one time or another… or every day. Why does it take so long to sink in for so many?
John takes us right to the story of Cain and Abel, an interesting choice. He tells us that Cain murdered his brother because Cain was following the evil one, that his actions were evil and Abel’s actions were righteous; murder was the result. Now to be fair to Cain, I’ve never heard this mentioned as a motive for murder on a detective show before. The usual motives for murder are hatred, greed, fear of exposure, jealousy… wait! Maybe that’s the one: jealousy! He was jealous because Abel was righteous and Cain was evil, and that led to hatred, which led to murder. I wonder if Perry Mason or DCI Barnaby would see it that way….
It would seem to me that John is suggesting that evil will oppress the righteous. Then he takes another interesting step, adding linkage that we should pay close attention to, because it takes the old story from Genesis and brings it starkly to life: Do not be surprised if the world hates you.
I never cease to be amazed when Christians act all horrified and indignant that certain elements in society oppose us at every turn. What is surprising about that? Certain elements in society murdered God’s prophets and opposed the Lord Himself to the point of death, not to mention the early church, and evil regimes all through the ages. There is nothing new in any of this. No, it is not a sign that the end is near, it is a sign that we are in the last age, just as John said his readers were…
We must love one another, because we have passed from death into life. We must love one another because God first loved us and He also loves our brother, and we love our brother because we love God: This, too is nothing new. How will the world know that we are in Christ? Because we love one another. Will the world hate that? Yes, but many will also want it and be attracted to it, because once you separate individuals from the society in which they live, they want what we have in Christ. Therefore, loving one another spreads the Gospel and accomplishes God’s purpose.
Oh, sorry, I’ve gotten a little ahead of the text. That’s coming…
Welcome back to our road trip, our journey of discovery, as we examine that little theory of mine. We’ve been travelling along, and up to this point, we have made several stops where we were able to look at certain aspects of the theory. Today is the changeover, for up to this point, we’ve been looking at things people do that get in the way of their spiritual lives, but from here, as we turn into the home stretch, we will consider the counter-intuitive life of following our Lord Jesus. To refresh your memory, here’s the theory again:
“Christian theology is not particularly difficult to understand. Its precepts and premises are fairly simple, it was given to “regular” guys to share with the world, and they did it. Yes, of course they had a lot of help from the Holy Spirit, but then so do we. Yet we love to argue, follow tradition and form to avoid spiritual growth and reaching out, because they are counter-intuitive, and the fact that they are counter-intuitive is exactly the point of all things being new, for our human intuition isn’t new, it’s the old thing that Jesus died to free us from.”
The things I mentioned here that are counter-intuitive are “spiritual growth,” and “reaching out.” In truth, you really can’t separate the two, for growing spiritually will almost automatically cause us to reach out to others for Christ. Let’s begin this part of our discovery by looking at the most fundamental of all of the teachings of our Lord.
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Luke 10:36-37, larger context, Luke 10:25-37
I’m sure that you recognize this as the final two verses of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which Jesus told a story about a man who was attacked, robbed, beaten and left for dead out on a highway. As the man lay there on the road, passers-by stepped right over him, but did not offer any help, not even the religious leader, until a lowly, unclean Samaritan gave the man aid and comfort. It must have been hard for the expert in the law who was trying to trap Jesus in this conversation, to concede who the “neighbor” was, and you might have noticed that he didn’t mention the word “Samaritan” in doing so.
The exchange begins when the expert in the Law asked Jesus a question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” (10:25) and Jesus responds with a question of his own: “What is written in the Law?” (10:26) and the expert replies in verse 27 by reciting the “greatest commandment” that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind, and then he adds that you shall love your neighbor as your self. He follows up with another question, “Who is my neighbor?” (10:29) and so Jesus answers with the parable…
Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor; this is Christian theology in a nutshell, the very heart and core of our faith. It is so easy to say, but make no mistake, it has far-reaching implications!
You see, if we really love God like that, and He loves all His children as He loves us, and was willing to send His Son to die, as Jesus says in John 3:16, then we must love all His children as He does, and as He loves us. Forget all the arguments and debates, forget all of the social and class distinctions. Forget about being comfortable all the time and about what somebody else might think. We must love our neighbor, even the one who is unlovely. Now, consider that while you were still in your sins, God sent Jesus to die for you, so great was His love, (Rom. 5:8) how can either you or I sit by while even one more of our neighbors dies without Jesus?
Why do we linger? Why do we step over the injured and keep on walking? Why do we look the other way? Why do we continue to look to our traditions, our customs, our forms of religion and our ceremonies? Have they ever saved even one single child of God who was broken out there in the street, or in the neighborhood?
No! Not even once. Those things don’t save anybody, only relationship with God through Jesus Christ can do that, and oh how marvelous that relationship is.
My focus has shifted as you can see, from that which holds us back from this relationship, to how incredibly awesome the relationship is. It is loving, safe, secure, marvelous, miraculous, and holy. It is unlimited, eternal, and full of possibility. In short, it is the most satisfying, the most fulfilling and the most… counter-intuitive thing that a human being can ever become involved in, and it is sitting right there waiting for us to grab hold of it, just as soon as we can stop holding on to the things that distract us.
Wow, what a way wrap up a work week, considering the awesomeness of our relationship with the very God who created the universe! I pray that you’ll go through the entire day with these things on your heart, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow, when we make our next stop, where we will take a look at why we would give everything else up to serve our Lord.
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
1 John 3:7-10
This is an interesting passage with which to begin any fiscussion: Don’t let anyone lead you astray. There are many who would do so, and they may try by appealing to our pride or vanity, they might appeal to greed or lust, they might even appeal to our intellect with attractive arguments or curious reasoning, but have you ever asked yourself why they would bother?
John gives the reason in this passage: They are sinful, of the devil, and doing the devil’s work, because the devil has been in rebellion against God since the beginning and is looking for allies… or at least to separate us from Christ. It is very important that we get this point. It is the work of the devil to separate us from Christ, because in Christ we are part of His work, and His work is to destroy the works of the devil. Actually, this is so simple we might miss it− In Christ, we are a threat, so there will be opposition.
Within this context, John speaks of doing what is right as opposed to doing what is sinful, and in this context doing what is right means following Jesus Christ, and doing what is sinful means not following Christ and trying to lead His followers astray. So far, this is very straight forward, and then John throws us a curve at the end, a curve that leads us to the next section. Doing right means that we love one another, doing wrong means that we don’t.
Wait! I thought you just said that doing right was following Jesus, and doing wrong was not following Jesus! Where did all of this love stuff come from?
Simple answer: If we do not love one another as He loved us, then we can’t possibly be following Jesus Christ, because loving one another is where He is leading us.
we consider this part of the theory that we are currently examining:
Yet we love to argue, follow tradition and form to avoid spiritual growth…
In the last stop on our journey, we looked at argument and premises and a couple of examples, one from history and one from the present to see how adding to the New Covenant resulted in long-term consequences and how that can lead to conflicts and divisions. Of course, I approached all of this in very general terms, using larger concepts rather than small details, and so I will continue. I also introduced the concept of TWWADI: The Way We’ve Always Done It. I wrote a post some years ago that is called TWAADI: Church Killer, and rather than repeat that all here, I’ve linked to it. The main thrust of that post was how our local church traditions can stifle a congregation. Here I’d like to center more on what I’ve already called “form.” In a post the other day, I mentioned that we like to come up with certain forms so that we can codify that if a person does X, Y and Z, they’ve done all they need to do. Well, this kind of form completely misses the mark, even though it could be “right” in and of itself. Here’s an example:
You are seeking God. A friend invites you to church; you go, you like the experience, like the music and the sermon and they take good care of your kids. The people are great, you want to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, so you sit down with the Pastor, Minister, Vicar, Priest (or whatever they’re called). He shares with you about the Lord and you say YES! (This is the short version again, please don’t contact me and tell me I left something out) Then the Pastor (or whatever) hands you a handy sheet that lists what you need to do. Maybe it says something like this:
1. State your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior before the congregation.
2. Be Baptized into His Name.
3. Promise to attend three new members classes (schedule attached).
4. Read and pledge to support and observe out Core Values Statement (attached)
5. Tithe 10%
6. Attend Worship regularly
7. Be ready and willing to volunteer to help church programs and activities; get involved.
OK, that’s enough for you to get the picture of what I’m talking about. I’m not taking issue with any of this right now; it’s just a story…
Except for one little thing. How does that new person perceive this?
There are many possibilities, but the biggest in my view, is that you just gave the person a list of 7 things to do to become a Christian, and none of them have moved one single inch from or beyond becoming a Christian. What is there that takes them the rest of the way into discipleship; where is following Jesus in all of this? All we’ve done here is to give them “form” to follow.
Now I know of great churches that do some of this kind of thing, but they never leave it here, and they never give somebody the impression that they just joined a club. but those are rare these days.
When we insist on putting form in the superior position, we have an easy way to handle things, but we are not following Jesus… and do you know why we let this happen?
Because it is intuitive, traditional and the way of this world. We can catch hold of this and never have the need to grow, because everything is already done. That is why I say we’d rather argue, follow tradition and form to avoid spiritual growth. Spiritual growth is naturally uncomfortable, and sometimes a little messy, and requires that we trust God in fact, and not just in word… and we can always alter our premises to justify it.
Well troop, now that we have come to the very brink of “radical,” maybe this is a good place to break.
Let’s have a little review, and then back to the hotel.
What I’ve tried to show you so far are things that cause problems for believers, and some possible reasons. Whether my contention that we tend to do these things because they are intuitive, rather than just follow Jesus because that is counter-intuitive is for you to decide; my mind is pretty well made up already. If you see it differently than I do, fine and dandy.
Next, I’d like us to visit some places where we can see more about what it really means to follow Him, and how that relates to “reaching out.” After that, you will have all that I have to make your conclusion about my theory, and whatever your decision turns out to be, I will pose three questions for you to consider. They are the three big questions of Applied Theology really, but don’t be concerned, they are really easy. They are:
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
1 John 3:1-3
It’s really an amazing thing to read this text and give it a chance to sink in; this is a text to read slowly, prayerfully…
While we were dead in our sinful rebellion against God, He loved us so much, even in spite of our mindset against Him, that He went to extraordinary lengths to redeem us to Himself, and once reborn, we are now His children. There are moments when we may not feel like it, but when God looks upon us, He sees His own children… what more is there to say?
None of us really can appreciate exactly what that entails. It’s like being asked what heaven is like… I’ve been asked this many times, but I must admit that I don’t really know. People repeat certain Biblical passages about heaven, and act as though they know all, but they are kidding themselves, for they are quoting non-literal passages that give indications of certain aspects of heaven, but not details, and do you know how I can say this so boldly? It’s easy; human language does not, nor could it ever, contain the vocabulary to describe fully, accurately and completely those things which no man has ever seen and reported directly – we have no references to comprehend. The same is true for being children of God. Much remains “hidden” for there is simply no vocabulary to convey the full meaning. When we see Jesus Christ face-to-face, we will see all. What a glorious hope! It is only natural and proper for us to respond to this by setting aside the old life, the old ways, and to be pure as He is pure to the best of our ability, and according to His leading.
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
1 John 3:4-6
John highlights the point made above about purity in these verses. For us to disregard everything He has done for us, to reject His love and His grace and remain in the old ways is simply inconceivable. That isn’t to say that we will never struggle or make mistakes; it isn’t to say that we are suddenly perfect. He came to take sin away, after all, not to catch us messing up. John is once again pointing out the contrast between the follower of Jesus Christ and the one who rejects Jesus Christ. He doesn’t appear to be referring in any way to a follower who had a bad day.
Before I conclude this, dear reader, what is it that really jumps out at you here?
For me, the thing that jumps out is that not only is God’s love for us amazing, boundless, and tremendous, but that it holds implications that go far beyond anything that we can even begin to comprehend in our current mortal state, and that our hope for eternal life is not only assured, but far more amazing than anyone has ever understood it to be.
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