Followers (Of Christ),
Today's message the Ministry wanted to share is, simple, and concise about "God". This will likely be the easiest message you will ever read from this Mountain Majesty Ministry, compared to last weeks blog we will still cover for many years. Actually challenging to write because to share "God", words and speech gets in the way of all that. To share God, to show God, to speak of God, one almost has to be quiet sometimes, and really not say anything, or very little on the biggest and most expansive subject in the galaxy. As much as the Ministry "loves" to share God's love, for this moment, let's create an assumption you and me already know. That God is love. The old song by The Supremes that says "Stop! In the name of love...". Let us stop just a few minutes is all we ask, and think what is love?
What Is God?
To ask what is love, is to ask what/who is God. "What (who) is God". In simplest, essential nature and most powerful form, God is love. Love is God. It is the strongest power and light form we can have, our strongest need, and something we all have "capacity" for. When you feel distant and far from God, focusing to his love draws him near as the fastest and simplest way to find God in his grace made possible in abundant radiance to all humans through Jesus Christ.
So powerful, simple and clear it is, we can reduce our understandings of it ALL as found in 1 John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
It was not the odddity of Americas Woodstock or Hippies saying and inventing "God is love" where we get this truth from, this was the truth from the beginning of time even. We see a similar verse in 1 John 4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
The nature of love observed and insights gained, is almost like seasons, and life itself experienced, and that process of maturing to see it's different shades, tones, and depths. Love is different at different times for different people where you are contentful and peaceful see what it is, and yet, seeing it, is only part of it. Fortunately there are always others I learn about love from, who know it better than I who even show me. It has to be a whole picture and also a action of how we even want to be. We see it described in its states of how we should be to reflect it. Sometimes easier said than done, in 1 Corinthians 4-13 "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;2 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Love is something we need above all, yet it is seen, and not always received due to short-comings to our insights and actions, but given and shared is part of the deal to it. A most complete circle within our heart is when it is from above, and into us to make love make more sense, and easier to understand as a commandment even. Aside from perfected love we have from God through his Son, I am sorry to say it is not something any of us says "okay, Im done, I loved and know love...lets move on to the next subject". It is even a learning experience ongoing no one here on earth presently fully masters, but Jesus did express the greatest degree of it to us all (even he is not done with us on earth yet) in the greatest act to all.
It Is This Simple
Complicated, massive, the subject "God" is, love is, and the Bible. How then can we reduce the size of a blog about God and love and where this Mountain Majesty Ministries is going in days and years ahead through internet? For one, keep reading them and subscribe at the top of the blog is the e-mail sign up. Yet God reduced it all to to three things primarily...1-Giving us his Son 2.-His Son leaving us two commandments through all else is fulfilled in what he taught and gave us. Mark 12:30-31King James Version (KJV) 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mathew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you Just ask for love, and you will receive. Even if saved already, we should keep asking for love, because it can still keep coming and being received for the asking. Your lifes richness and growth likely stops at times, because you stopped asking for love. Salvation can come as easily asking the Father once through his Son, but love....ongoing, unending, without fail. Do not be afraid to admit, you often forget to "ask" for love. It is right there, we just forget.
This day, "stop!" in the name of love even if just 15 seconds of thought directed to God, to say a simple breathing-awake-prayer asking to have love and wait for that moment of peace and see how he shows it in days ahead.
Ask....
Blessings,
MMM
Mountain Majesty Ministries
P.O. Box 1375
Westcliffe, Colorado 81252
Web pages under development, click here for mountainmajestyministries.com
Today's message the Ministry wanted to share is, simple, and concise about "God". This will likely be the easiest message you will ever read from this Mountain Majesty Ministry, compared to last weeks blog we will still cover for many years. Actually challenging to write because to share "God", words and speech gets in the way of all that. To share God, to show God, to speak of God, one almost has to be quiet sometimes, and really not say anything, or very little on the biggest and most expansive subject in the galaxy. As much as the Ministry "loves" to share God's love, for this moment, let's create an assumption you and me already know. That God is love. The old song by The Supremes that says "Stop! In the name of love...". Let us stop just a few minutes is all we ask, and think what is love?
What Is God?
To ask what is love, is to ask what/who is God. "What (who) is God". In simplest, essential nature and most powerful form, God is love. Love is God. It is the strongest power and light form we can have, our strongest need, and something we all have "capacity" for. When you feel distant and far from God, focusing to his love draws him near as the fastest and simplest way to find God in his grace made possible in abundant radiance to all humans through Jesus Christ.
So powerful, simple and clear it is, we can reduce our understandings of it ALL as found in 1 John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
It was not the odddity of Americas Woodstock or Hippies saying and inventing "God is love" where we get this truth from, this was the truth from the beginning of time even. We see a similar verse in 1 John 4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
The nature of love observed and insights gained, is almost like seasons, and life itself experienced, and that process of maturing to see it's different shades, tones, and depths. Love is different at different times for different people where you are contentful and peaceful see what it is, and yet, seeing it, is only part of it. Fortunately there are always others I learn about love from, who know it better than I who even show me. It has to be a whole picture and also a action of how we even want to be. We see it described in its states of how we should be to reflect it. Sometimes easier said than done, in 1 Corinthians 4-13 "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;2 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Love is something we need above all, yet it is seen, and not always received due to short-comings to our insights and actions, but given and shared is part of the deal to it. A most complete circle within our heart is when it is from above, and into us to make love make more sense, and easier to understand as a commandment even. Aside from perfected love we have from God through his Son, I am sorry to say it is not something any of us says "okay, Im done, I loved and know love...lets move on to the next subject". It is even a learning experience ongoing no one here on earth presently fully masters, but Jesus did express the greatest degree of it to us all (even he is not done with us on earth yet) in the greatest act to all.
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| A photo from Texas, by Wingchi Poon is but one way to pictorially show what love is to how it is achieved. Putting God, love, into your heart. |
It Is This Simple
Complicated, massive, the subject "God" is, love is, and the Bible. How then can we reduce the size of a blog about God and love and where this Mountain Majesty Ministries is going in days and years ahead through internet? For one, keep reading them and subscribe at the top of the blog is the e-mail sign up. Yet God reduced it all to to three things primarily...1-Giving us his Son 2.-His Son leaving us two commandments through all else is fulfilled in what he taught and gave us. Mark 12:30-31King James Version (KJV) 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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| "Salvation Mountain" can be located on the map by clicking here. The picture taken by Tricia Savino shows what is in California, USA, and it ...well, if a picture is a thousand words, helps say it simple. Just ask for Jesus, and you will find, have and recieve love. |
Mathew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you Just ask for love, and you will receive. Even if saved already, we should keep asking for love, because it can still keep coming and being received for the asking. Your lifes richness and growth likely stops at times, because you stopped asking for love. Salvation can come as easily asking the Father once through his Son, but love....ongoing, unending, without fail. Do not be afraid to admit, you often forget to "ask" for love. It is right there, we just forget.
This day, "stop!" in the name of love even if just 15 seconds of thought directed to God, to say a simple breathing-awake-prayer asking to have love and wait for that moment of peace and see how he shows it in days ahead.
Ask....
Blessings,
MMM
Mountain Majesty Ministries
P.O. Box 1375
Westcliffe, Colorado 81252
Web pages under development, click here for mountainmajestyministries.com
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