God is LOVE

2009 . 07 . 03
10:55 AM


Im sitting in the bus watching the road pass by as the wind blows in through the windows. We have been on this road for about one hour, it seems as if it’s getting longer as it opens into big openness of Alabama fields & trees. Road are a little bumpy as construction is taking this whole place to a different level. Ok enough on describing whats going on at this given moment.

We played a show last night in Birmingham AL. Which was really awesome cool. There was about 70 people there, we really had a great time. We got to hang with some of the peeps there from Birmingham and really got to talk and share cool stories about our life back home and what they did in bham AL.

So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and praying the past few days about the Love of Christ. We have no idea how much He loves us. I think we get a religious picture on how the Love of God really is. I think our views of Love is so distorted in religion and world corruption that we take that view and use it as how God loves us.
There are two sides of a line… On one side is all of what us life long Christians have grown up learning about the church and Christianity. Then there is the other side, that new baby Christians are learning as we speak. Its the Christianity that is so watered down and comfort committed, which means it all good if we are comfortable but once it gets uncomfortable its no good and we buck it. Both sides are nothing but religion, what we say is “real”, is watered down and not the real 1st century church. Its all about us and what we can get out of God, instead of falling at His feet and worshiping weather we get something out of Him or not. Its a lifestyle that says, God Im open and willing to do what you wish with my life weather I like it or not. Its about YOU and what you want for me! We become so selfish and self-centered that our so called “calling” is just our own desires in life. Its all about US and not about HIM. As long as we like it and can do something that benefits us we are cool with it! It’s a messed up mind set to the one who gave up everything so that Him and I would never be apart. He wanted nothing but the best for us that HE gave up everything, HE LOVED! Then the Center of the line is CHRIST! It’s the real un touched words of life. It’s the the very thing we are all wanting but settle for what we see every Sunday at church. It’s the the thing that fills the whole in our life that people search for a lifetime to find. It’s a true love that every heart longs to feel. Its what satisfies our soul and cleanses all of our iniquity. It shapes our life and gives us a HOPE for eternity! It’s a genuine Love that never gives up and never stops chasing us!

How are we supposed to love other people.
What about the person that you may not be too fond of, or the one who constantly keeps rocking the same stupidity everyday and never moves on or matures in who they are in Christ. I know I fall into that same stupidity sometimes. I know I don’t have it all figured out and I don’t claim to be a lover of man/woman like Christ is. It is honestly very hard to really love like Christ, unconditionally.

Its really ironic that God is working out this whole love thing in my heart when I turned on my ipod to listen to some music as I write this. I wanted to listen to a band called “Sleeping at last”, an amazing band. A song called “Needle & Thread” came on and was completely about LOVE. The chorus says, “all the blood and all the sweat, we invest it to be in love” then it says, “We were made of love”. I know this might be a little different then what I was just talking about, but think of this, we are all wanting to be loved in some way or another, we strived to be certain things and dress certain styles, act certain ways just because we want to be excepted and loved. Now relate this into what we were talking about earlier… If we never give love to except people no one would ever feel loved. This love is such a surface love, and does not last. If we Love as Christ Loves, which is the only love that never goes away, is patient and kind, not jealous boastful or proud, it is not rude. It doesn’t demand its own way, it is not irritable and never keeps record of being wrong. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love never gives up and never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance. (1 Cor. 13:4-7) If we love this way and not get so hung up on the way people act and see through our humanity and screwed up lives maybe we would see bigger change. Maybe we would see our world as we know it be a little like what Christ died for it to be. I struggle with this just as much as any of you do, I want to be better than this. I don’t want to take on this religion and modern day Christianity that humanity has made up, I want the truth of who Christ really is, I want the real love of Christ not our carnal view of love which claims to be real.

Lets set a new standard of living, lets know and love Christ more than anything and let that overflow out of us to set a new world view of love! Lets be the literal hands and feet and LOVE of Christ.


Aaron M.