As you read this, read slowly, mindfully and
imaginatively:
“All sorts of people are fond
of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God
is love.’ But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.
Love is something that one person has
for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made,
He was not love.
Of course, what these people
mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they
really mean ‘Love is God.’ They really
mean that our feelings of love, however and whatever they arise, and whatever
results they produce, are to be treated with great respect. Perhaps they are:
but that is something quite different from what Christians mean by the
statement ‘God is love.’ They believe
that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and
has created everything else.
And that, by the way, is
perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other
religions: that in Christianity God is
not static thing – not even a person – but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a
life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent,
a kind of dance”
(Excerpted quote from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Sell your
text books and buy this book!)
THINK
BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
No comments:
Post a Comment