Love of God

The Excess of Love in the Bible
the Judgment of God

    Jesus gave us "two Commandments":

 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you" (Jn.15:12,17, 13:34,35).
 "He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation" (Mk.16:15, Mt.28:19).

  Love is the "measure-stick" of our Faith:

Love is the most appropreat measure by which others will recognize that you are a Christian. This Love can be seen in your behaviour, action and care for others. As it is said in the Bible
"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (Jn.13:35)... not in the fact that you say you have "faith" in Jesus, but because you love your neighbor. Anyone who says "I love God", but hates his brother, is a liar. For whoever who does not love the brother whom he can see, can not love God whom he has not seen" (1Jn.4:20). We don't see the "Faith in Christ", the love to God, but we see the "love to our neighbor", and that's the measure-stick of our "love to God", that we are good Christians.   
Also God would recognize that you have been a good Christian by your love to your neighbor, as stated in the descriptions of the "Final Judgment", "I was hungry, and you gave me to eat..." (Matt.25:31-46, Rev.20:11-15, Rom.2:5-11, 2Cor.5:10, Jn.5:28-29).

If Jesus would come today to earth looking for Christians, he would look for those who love their neighbor, for those who do good service to their relatives and friends and enemies.

  So, what the Faith in Christ is good for?... to become Love!:

Faith in Jesus Christ is a most glorious gift, the greatest treasure on earth, able to fill us with the love of God, because Jesus Christ Himself comes freely into you, just by faith,  and then you can love and do good deeds, and not you, but Jesus who is in you. In Christianity, faith is the foundation of the building, love is the building itself, and hope is the windows of that building, to receive fresh air and light and warmth... (1Cor.13:13, Gal.5:5-6). True faith always brings good works, and joy, and peace, like the lighted wood always gives light and heat and indeed, love is the only measure of faith, the only one measure used in all passages of the Last Judgment in the Bible, not faith, but love but, of course, there is also "false faith", the faith that is good for nothing, say Jesus and Paul, or the faith of the Devil, says James (Matt.7:21-23, 1Cor.13:1-3, Jam.2:18-20)... please, keep on reading for more on this., what Paul and James and Jesus say about this "false faith"

we all want to love, but no one can love, because we all love ourselves since Adam, and selfishness is exactly the opposite of love but if Jesus is in your heart, then you are going to have the love and joy and peace that only God can give, and that no one can take away.

    Paul is specific on this issue: "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing" (1Cor.13:1-3). Faith without works is the faith of the Devil the Devil believes, but trembles, he knows about the Bible more that all humans put together... the Devil knows about Christ, but he can't be another Christ, and because he "knows" and "is not", that's why he is the Devil, and the Christian who knows about Christ but he is not another Christ is like the Devil... it is "to be", not just "to know", the essence of being a Christian (James 2:18-20).

 Jesus Himself is more specific and even frightening!: He states that "many" Christians will go to Hell, it is not just to believe, but to have the right faith that produces fruits of good deeds!... many Christians with faith enough as to be preachers or prophets, even who cast out demons in the name of Jesus, and who did mighty works in the name of Jesus, will go to Hell!: "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.' (Matt.7:21-23).

 How to become "love":

    We all want to become "love", the nun and the prostitute, the criminal and the priest, and the poor, and the millionaire...

    The main problem is that all of us are "selfish", we love ourselves, which is exactly the opposite of "love"... but if Jesus is in my heart, then I am going to love, to feed the hungry and visit the sick... and not me, but Jesus who is in me (Gal.2:20)...

    So, "Faith in Jesus" is the fountain of love... We all, men and women, are like could "coal", we stain anything we touch... but when Jesus is in us, we become "lighted coals", shining, giving light and warmth, even if we don't try...

    ... "God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them" (1Jn.4:16)... Do you want to become God?, says St. Augustine... become Love, because God is love... Do you want to become love?, I say to you... become divine!, have Jesus in your heart... by Faith... and you will become "love".

  How to Love:

    1- Like your right hand loves your left hand:  

    "To love" is "to give... to give your time and money, and even yourself to the loved one... Jesus at Calvary, that's love!, he gave himself for us. ... ... And the way we are going to love, is like my right hand loves my left hand, because we all belong to the same body, the "Mystical Body of Christ"!... so, we have to love each other like your hand loves your eye...

    2- Your "neighbor"... is "Jesus":

    Every time I do something for my neighbor, I am doing it to Christ himself, as Jesus repeats 13 times in the Last Judgment of Matt.25:31-46... and that changes completely your life: When you cook to your family, you are cooking for Jesus; when you fix the car of an unknown, you are fixing the car of not the President of the Nation, but the car of Jesus...

    ... If the Pope or the President of your Country would go to the Office of a Doctor or a Lawyer, he would be treated with much respect, and honors... well, as a Christian, when a poor lady goes to your Office, you are dealing with someone more important than the Pope or the President, you are treating Jesus Christ himself... and that changes completely your life and work: You will work with more care, and more respect, and you would not dare to chit him!... (Matt.25:31-46, please, read it).

    This is the Christian faith: Jesus comes to us as a poor man, or as a rich one, as a professional or as a drunk... he is Jesus!... he stands at every corner of life as a white or a black... he is Jesus!

    "To love"... is "to give":

    "To love" is not easy, because it is "to give"... but it is the most glorious way to live the live on earth... and in Heaven!... The mother's care, that's love!... the lovers surrender, that's love!... if you do not want to suffer, don't love... but, if you don't love, what do you want to live for?...   

 God wants us to love:

    God wants us to love... so much, that he offers us "a hundred times" of what we give, in this life! (Mr.10:30)... or, in bank terms, 10,000%.... if you give one smile, you will receive 100; if you give $100, you will receive $10,000, in this life!... it is the best Bank... God is the very best stock or bond... try Him!...

  Love is something of "justice":

    "Love to your neighbor" is not just a pious thing, it is something of "justice":

    Your neighbor is not only the criminal that the news media show us: Thanks to your neighbor, you have your dress, and shoes, and car... because you do not know how to make watches, nor houses, nor glasses, nor roads... un unknown neighbor made them for you!... in "justice" we have to love our neighbor, who makes so many things for us... were it not for my neighbor I could not have even "a cup of coffee" or "milk": A neighbor planted the coffee, another milked the cow, another made the cup, and the spoon, and got the sugar for me... We have to love our neighbor in "justice"!... do some good for him, because he does so many good things for me!

 Love is very simple:

    Love is easy, very simple...like God!... the work Jesus did as a carpenter in Nazareth was as important as the one he did at the Mount of Transfiguration... one our of your work is one hour of intense prayer, if you do that work for God, made present in your neighbor... "whatever you do to your neighbor you do it to me" (Mt.25:31-46)...

    What Jesus did as an infant was as important as what he did in the Mount of the Beatitudes... it is to do the will of God what it really counts!... if you cook to do the will of God, it is as important to the eyes of God as when you preach to a thousand people... Virgin Mary is the Queen of all Saints, and all she did was to be a house-wife most of her life... and the important work of Jesus Himself for 30 years was to be an infant, a regular youngster, a carpenter... little things?... no, great things, he was doing the will of God!... he was serving the neighbor!...

 The "very best" love in the Bible:

    Chapter 13 of 1Corinthians is a "hymn of love". Verse 4 impresses me:

            "And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, but I have no charity (love), it profits me nothing" (1Cor.13:3).

    If I give all my possessions to feed the poor... and deliver my body to be burned to help my family... and I have no love?...

    What then is love, charity?:

   1- Think in your wife:
    If you give her all your money and body in love, but you help her to go to Hell with your life and words... she will hate you for ever in Hell!...

   2- Take your Children:
    If you give then all their clothes, and toys, and food, and housing, and education, but with your life and words you help them to Hell, they will hate you eternally... you actually cheated them, given them tokens of material love, but denying them the "real love", the real spiritual charity of your good life and words to help them to go to Heaven.
    And if they go to Hell because of your bad example, the day you die, they will be the first ones to shout out very loud: No, don't let my father or mother go to Heaven, bring him or her to Hell... we are here because of him or her!.

    3- Think in your Neighbor:
    If you give your money to help the neighbor in need, but if you teach him to be selfish and a bad person with your life and words, he will be bad, because you influenced him... and if he goes to Hell, because your bad example, he will hate you for all eternity... you had a false love for him... you helped him in his needs of money or body sickness, but you actually pushed him to Hell with your influence towards him... you really had not the true love for him... you actually cheated him!.

    The real love in the Bible is to eradicate an "error" from a person... even if it hurts!... to help him to go to Heaven... even if it means sacrifices!...

    To be in "error" in Religion, is to have a "cancer in the Soul"... it can ruin the only life on Earth, and the eternal one after Death.

    I am a Doctor in Medicine and Surgery. When I have a patient with cancer, I love the patient, but I hate his cancer, and I try my best to eradicate it from him... and even if it hurts, the patient is grateful to me.

    The "Greatest Love" is to eradicate an "error" from a person... even if it hurts!... it is actually to help him to go to eternal Heaven!.

    Jesus the Messiah died on a Cross to help us to go to Heaven... that's the "Greatest Love", to give your live to help someone to go to Heaven.... "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one's friends" (John 15:13).

    A huge barrier in this "Medicine of the Soul", is everybody's thinking, "I am right"!... it is the old trick of Satan of Gen.3... but the fact is that none of us is "infallible" in our beliefs... You and I can be wrong!.   

    ... The very best love, the very best thing you can give to your family, is to help them to go to Heaven... you may give them your money, your time, your body... but always with the main purpose of helping them to go to Heaven... and that's love!... the very best one... the only good one love!.

    ... To be an Evangelist, a Missionary, is the actualization of the very best love... the only one love... you can use your money, or your time, or your skills to help your neighbors, but always with the main purpose to help them to go to Heaven...

    ... and to be an Evangelist, not thinking in foreign lands, like Africa, but in your own home, neighborhood, your place of work... that's love!.

   If you feel I am in "error", please try to help me!.

    If I hurt you in these writings, it is not with any bad intention... it is an expression on my "Greatest Love"... not just to try to heal the Body, but to heal the Soul!.

    The Sweetest Love in the Bible:

    It is God becoming a little child at Bethlehem, stretching his arms asking for help, and love...

    The Excess of Love in the Bible:  

    Jesus in the Eucharist... that's the excess of love in the Bible... God makes himself now not "a humble child" like in Bethlehem, but just "bread and wine" to feed you and me!... every day!... he is the our daily bread of Mt.6:9.

    * Jesus is madly in love with you... he is waiting for you daily in the Eucharist... let yourself be loved... just go and receive him every day in the Sacrament of Love! (Matt.6:11, Jn.6:53).

·         And if any day you feel depressed, or lonely, or hurt, or too old... if you ever feel that you are good for nothing... you are still good enough to be a "Saint" in Jesus Christ. Amen

Love Must Penetrate Nature Even though it is altogether supernatural, the love of god must be solidly rooted in nature of man.