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pastor2022
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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Love's Quest |
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Love's Quest
Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight,
show me now Your way, that I may know You
and that I may find grace in Your sight.
Exodus 33:13
If our search for God is inspired by real love, we will not rest until we have come to know Him as He truly is. Mere admiration may be content to sit and daydream, but real love gets up and blazes a trail toward the actual knowledge of God. Such a relentless love in the heart of one seeker is of more heavenly consequence than all the placid intellect in the world. "Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart" (Henry Ward Beecher).
Knowing God is very much more than an "informational" exercise. We don't try to figure out God for the sake of curiosity; we seek to know Him for the sake of love. And the love that moves us to know God is every bit as real and robust as worldly love. "Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, the most vital, the most passionate love of which the human heart is capable" (Oswald Chambers).
Not all who say they love God have this passion, of course. But those who are lukewarm or haphazard will simply not find God. The good things that come from loving God are reserved for those who take Him seriously. "You will seek Me and find Me," God said, "when you search for Me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). Only wholehearted love has the persistence required to find God. This kind of love is an active force, always compelling us to seek and to search and to know the other. It will never let us be content until we have entered deeply into relationship with our Loving Lord. Love will find the way to find God.
Love is bold and aspires to grandeur. Combining the qualities of reverence and courage, love dares to seek God Himself. The deepest love in the human heart will settle for nothing less. It will not cease from its searching until it has found and known the very Source from which it was created. "Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee; e'en tho' it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee!"
"Love cannot be inactive; its life is a ceaseless effort to know, to feel,
and to realize the boundless treasures hidden within its depths.
This is its insatiable desire."
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wilber
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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How can anyone respond to that post?
Here is Love, vast as the ocean..
Pastor, I would join your flock.
This week I will read that each morning before I start my day.
With gratitude,
wilber |
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atoz
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Love's Quest |
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| pastor2022 wrote: | Love's Quest
Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight,
show me now Your way, that I may know You
and that I may find grace in Your sight.
Exodus 33:13
....
"Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart"
(Henry Ward Beecher).
...And the love that moves us to know God is every bit as real and robust as worldly love.
"Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, the most vital, the most passionate love of which the human heart is capable"
(Oswald Chambers).
....
"You will seek Me and find Me," God said, "when you search for Me with all your heart"
(Jeremiah 29:13).
Only wholehearted love has the persistence required to find God.
This kind of love is an active force, always compelling us to seek and to search and to know the other.
It will never let us be content until we have entered deeply into relationship with our Loving Lord.
Love will find the way to find God.
Love is bold and aspires to grandeur.
Combining the qualities of reverence and courage, love dares to seek God Himself.
The deepest love in the human heart will settle for nothing less.
It will not cease from its searching until it has found and known the very Source from which it was created.
"Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee; e'en tho' it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee!"
"Love cannot be inactive;
its life is a ceaseless effort to know, to feel, and to realize the boundless treasures hidden within its depths.
This is its insatiable desire."
Jan Van Ruysbroeck |
Wow!
Wonder of Wonders!
sigh
We want more!
Why did you stop, P2022?
There's got to be more!
Simply only whets my desire for more!
It's your fault!smile
Reminds me of these:
"Age cannot wither LOVE, nor custom stale
LOVE'S infinite variety: ALL other THINGS cloy
The appetites they feed: but LOVE makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become THEIR TRUE UNVILEST selves in her: PS 110:1: that the holy priests
Bless LOVE EVEN when LOVE is RUDE."
Cleopatra [II, 2]
"My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:
O, but for my Love, day would turn to night!
Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in LOVE'S fair cheek,
Where several worthies make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,—
Fie, painted rhetoric! O, LOVE needs it not:
To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,
LOVE passes praise; then praise too short doth blot.
A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,
Might shake off fifty, looking in LOVE'S eye:
THE Beauty OF LOVE doth varnish age, as if new-born,
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:
O, LOVE IS the sun that maketh all things shine.
By heaven, thy Love is black as ebony.
Is ebony like LOVE? O wood divine!
A wife of such wood were felicity.
O, who can give an oath? where is a book?
That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,
If that she learn not of LOVE'S eye to look:
No face is fair that is not full so black AS LOVE'S.
O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons and the suit of night;
And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
2 COR11:11-13
O, if in black my LOVE's brows be deck'd,
It mourns that painting and usurping hair
Should ravish doters with a false aspect;
And therefore is LOVE born to make black fair.
LOVE'S favour turns the fashion of the days,
For native blood is counted painting now;
And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,
Paints itself black, to imitate her brow."
Love's Labour's Lost [IV, 3]
We are begging for more of LOVE'S MORE WINE AND BREAD!smile
Pastor 2022,
we are your pastorate waiting in your pasture for more pasture!smile
Pretty please!
We are hungry!
We are thirsty!
No!
We are nor hungry: we are starving!
We are not thirsty: we are famished!
That's more like it!
Food! Water!
Just kidding!smile
But seriously!smile
with the Thanx of Love,
atoz |
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atoz
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| wilber wrote: | How can anyone respond to that post?
Here is Love, vast as the ocean..
Pastor, I would join your flock.
This week I will read that each morning before I start my day.
With gratitude,
wilber |
Yeah, Wilber, let's join up!
I hear that P2022 has DAILY services!
Who can wait for 7 days!
Didn't JC talk about giving us our DAILY bread?
So DAILY bread: DB it's going to be!
with Love from at least 2 or 3 bleating sheep,
atoz |
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