More on Love?

Stop me if you don't agree with what I'm saying. God doesn't love me because of all the great things I've done; He doesn't love me because I've earned his love; He doesn't even love me because of the gooderer songs I sing in worship. God just loves me because that's who He is; He is Love. Ok, so that makes sense to me fine.

Now we use God's love as an example for our love right? So we don't love Him because of what he did, we love him because of who he is? So... if I understand correctly, I don't love my God because of what He did on the cross for me? I don't love Him because He forgave all of my transgressions? Why do I love Him then? After all these years, I've heard preachers preach about all the great reasons that mean we should love our amazing God. Summer camp after summer camp has convinced me that it's only fair for me to love Him because he died for me. What does this all mean then?

A good husband doesn't love his wife because he gives her flowers. A good wife doesn't love her husband because he gave her flowers. That's a language of love, not love itself. God's language of love was death on a cross. But we can't use that as a crutch. God loves us because He is love and not because of what we've done. He even loved Hitler, and I hope it wasn't because of what he did. How do I live in love? Do I become love? How can I love like God loves, when he is love and I'm not? I don't even know... Any ideas anyone?

Show it up!

Hey, it's been a while since I've posted anything. Maybe that's because we're rolling into midterms... maybe it's because I've forgotten that I even have a blog... maybe it's because we've got a show on the 26th that we gotta write some songs for? The world will never really know.

But on that thought... SID PEN, NOV SAT 26th!!! A rock show to shake the foundation of our culture! Or maybe just the foundation of sid pen? hehe, either way it's gonna rock and you all should come out. It's only $5 and there are gonna be some wicked bands there; umm... well I can't remember their names, but we're just some no names that get to open for them!

And this whole band thing is really startin to groove with me more and more every day. I've never felt the kind of creative juices that I do now when we're just sittin around and jammin in our basement. I really want to learn to express myself so much better through writing like that. It's like a whole other world of communication. It's like talking, because you use words just like talking, and it's like writing because you put it down on paper... but it's something so much more than both of them put together. I don't even know how to explain it yet... so I won't.