what strikes me about my faith is that it has always been about love. (*now i have to say, before God invited me into a real relationship with Himself, "faith" was all about fearing punishment and promising to never do "it" again, and of course committing to be "good" if God would get me out of my current mess. i came to a point in my life where God helped me to realize that what i was experiencing was not faith at all...but that is a story for another day...)
when i think about the way that God pursues me, i think about love...whether i look back at all he has done for me in the past, or, the ways that he woos me today to follow him - either to do things i would never choose of my own accord to do or go to places (*or stay in others) i find unappealing, i think of love.
i think christianity has always been about love. now, we can make it into other things - being right, being good (*not an easy thing to do...i tried!), getting God to give us what we want, etc...
curiously, both the old testament and new testament proclaim this truth. i used to always think that under the old covenant that God expected people to obey the law in order to enter into relationship with him. it was all based upon their performance. but over the past years, i have been hearing something different. in fact, i just read something recently that talks about this...and i would like to share it with you. here goes:
