Pastor Brent made this statement at church today and it struck a nerve.
"Whether or not you agree with the following two statements will determine a lot about how you live as a believer.
God loves me and:
(1) there is nothing I can ever do to make him love me more.
(2) there is nothing I can ever do to make him love me less."
A couple of years ago I don't think that I believed that at all. I thought God loves one category of persons a certain amount and other categories at different amounts. By my obedience, devotion, and faith I can move into higher love categories. Failure to obey, doubt, unbelief, and lapses in devotion would result in my falling into lower love categories. Though everyone does get a guaranteed minimum love allotment.
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Isn't that so comforting and peace-giving to understand that we are at God's inifinte level of love at all times??
I am not sure that I am that comfortable, yet. The trendline is in that direction. Pastor Brent seemed to get great security from believing this; so I imagine it would be nice to be so comforted.
I'm reading this again on April 20th 2009, and I gota admit that I think that I believe this now. I can't say exactly what happened. I think it maybe just because it's been modeled well by Pastor Brent and the In Focus Fam.
-rh
I'm reading this again on April 20th 2009, and I gota admit that I think that I believe this now. I can't say exactly what happened. I think it maybe just because it's been modeled well by Pastor Brent and the In Focus Fam.
-rh
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