Thursday, October 11, 2007
We Don't Deserve God's Love?!
I keep running into things that have my mind getting impassioned. I guess it's good for that to happen some, otherwise my mind doesn't have anything interesting to talk about. I don't want to overdo it, though. One of the most recent things I was reading about was how we don't deserve to be in God's presence, and we don't deserve God's love, and we don't deserve God's forgiveness... I feel angry at reading things like that. Those three sentences have no meaning-one can't deserve any of that-you can't deserve love or forgiveness or to be in someone's presence. Those things are not on a measuring stick, there are no love points to be earned. To say one doesn't deserve to be loved is a horrible negative statement which only purpose seems to be to tell people how worthless and insignificant they are. People are not worthless and insignificant! We all matter to God, we all have value to God. I think it is utterly defeating to tell a person "God loves you so much, even though you don't deserve it." What? What's the point in telling them God loves them when you just made them not worthy of love? There is going to be a big wound in people who believe such statements, for they really say "You are not lovable." Why isn't the statement "God loves you" no, "Even though..."? There should never, ever be any "buts" when it comes to love. "I love you, but" is not a love statement. Adding 'deserve' to a love statement contradicts the love statement. Who would tell their children "I love you even though you don't deserve it"? I don't think anyone but the most sick parents would say such a thing. I read in a short story that we do not deserve to be in God's presence. What a painful thing to say! They were comparing us to a dog who wandered into an orchestra-I bet that no one said or thought "That dog does not DESERVE to be here!" No, that would be stupid, and yet when it comes to us appearing in the orchestra of God, they have the gall to say "Even though we don't deserve to be there". Don't deserve? What does deserving have to do with anything?! Ugh!
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Hi Cassie! :) I totally agree with what you wrote here... I've been thinking about the statement "love your neighbor as yourself" some time ago, and I think it means that we should see all people as actually deserving love, because that's how God sees them. And saying that someone doesn't deserve love goes completely against that. Trying to understand that all people actually deserve love, no matter who they are, makes us see people like God sees them, and therefore makes us get closer to God... that's what I believe :)
I hope you're having an absolutely wonderful weekend! *hugs*
No, it's not that WE don't deserve Gods love. GOD doesn't deserve OUR love and worship. I mean, if he thinks love is killing hundreds of children due to disease and starvation, murdering mass amounts of people with earthquakes, tsunamis and other shit is "love" for him, then oh yeah, god must love us ALOT. God doesn't deserve love. He deserves out contempt and hate.
Dear None,
It isn't about deserving God's love with me, it is with the Christians that write those things. And I would agree that a God who does all of those things for punishment or because we didn't love him enough is an evil God. That God would not deserve love. But, I do not believe God is like that. I believe God is Everything, and that death is not an act of God, but God dying. There is no suffering that is not the Divine suffering. I will always love God. God is manifested in us all. We are the shape and form of the Essence of life. So, to hell with a God bent on destruction. To he;; with a God who demands our love while he doesn't care at all about us.
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