QUARRELLS AND DISAGREEMENTS

This is too hollow and cold

I didn’t ignore it

I just did not agree

What I did was illegal

Not immoral

As a boy

I threw rock at soldiers

I have many passions to be mortified

Many bad habits to correct

And many egotisms to surrender

I seek a glow not a blow

I can give you nothing

But I can take something away

All forms of loneliness

And that is gift enough, if only you know that

It’s not that people don’t have enough

But they always want more

WHEN LOVE IS PERVERTED

God is love; He can’t even be hated

Whether you love Jesus, serve Allah or hug trees

But the nature of the triune God makes all the difference

In understanding what went wrong when Adam and Eve fell

We get to know that something deeper, more than just breaking a rule happened

They perverted love and rejected God

The one who made them to love and be loved by him

But yet he provided his grace for humanity

God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense

Once perverted

Man’s need for divine love impels him to go on seeking infinite love in finite beings

And never finding it, yet he is not able to end the search

To satisfy the demands of my spirit

And needs of divine illumination and grace

I have learnt like the prophets that the impotence of my natural powers

This is the unbearable voice of my uneasy conscience

I substituted license for liberty

These experiences drive up my moral enthusiasm

I have been cooked, hard and hard

When flesh is given a moral value

It produces life

When sex frustrates morality

It ends in death

Predilection of sex is a profound characteristic

Of a naturalistic age

We can’t help it

When emotions always gain supremacy over reason

RELIGION IS LOVE

Love is the heartbeat of what it means to be godly

Without love we will just be left with the gruel of religion

But nothing is more delicious than to keep in step

With a spirit whose purpose is love

The greatest unkindness we can do to God

Is to refuse to believe He love us

Knowing God can be dangerous

But abandoning the God we know is suicide

Belief in God is not so much like the child’s comfort blanket

It is like the child’s nightmare

When people describe the God they don’t believe in

He sounds more like the Satan

The sinful human mind is like a perpetual factory of idols

We are all constantly distorting the nature of God in our minds

Making the father of light out

To be less than He is, and devilish

This tendency is the very source of all spiritual coldness

But God is love; He can’t even be hated

Whether we love Jesus, serve Allah or hug trees

Mercy is the outworking in fallen time and the history of the action of a God

Whom love of the other is central to His Being

But the human family is torn apart

By loveless-ness and malice

LOVE MANIAC

I love all

Yet have no lover

I have aged in love

Yet without a love story

I know the secrets of the soul

I know the pleasures of love

Fulfillment is my delight of them

Knowing these keeps my heart beating

I have known the love of a lover

I have known the lover of love

Who fills me with life

And gives more than I dare to ask

I love like the sun

Without preference and grudge

I warm the cold

I melt the hardened

I love like the water

With kindness and joy

I refresh the thirsty

I cleanse the dirty

Come to me now

And close me up

Boil me and get me done

You are just it, as I wanted