Now What?

Now that we’ve understood who/what God is (love), what the essence of love is (give), what sin is (the opposite of love which is selfishness), how man was created (in the image of God = love) and how he managed to become what he is today, we can advance in our journey. For those of you who are not clear about the above concepts, you can review the older posts; especially the one entitled: “Stop trying to be happy”.

In the post entitled: “Decoding the Past, Understanding the Present, the Future…?” we were asked this question: What did Jesus do after He was rejected? He kept being what He came to be: love, a revealer of the Father. Even if this cost His life and so, so much suffering. He took over Himself the consequence of my choice to be selfish (sin). He died. The Bible says that “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6,23) and he paid this price in our place. This is love! This is how God is! Doing whatever it takes to give us another chance to a wonderful life even if a lot of the human beings will mock this second chance too. But He rose from the dead because there was no selfishness in Him but only love; the death did not have power over Him. How much are we willing to sacrifice for somebody who did something bad? How much are we willing to sacrifice for somebody who did something wrong to us?
After Jesus was raised, He went back to the Father but before this, he entrusted His followers with continuing His mission on earth: to show the world how God is (love) and to help the human beings to return to their perfect state in which they were created: love. And don't forget that when we speak about love we are not speaking about the feelings but the true definition of love (for clarification see the posts entitled: "Love - the simplest but also the most rejected definition" and "L___? What is it?").

What is the purpose of the followers of Christ? To show the world what love is (God) and to help those who are willing, to become like Him again (love). This is the mission of Christianity. Anything shorter than this is not Christianity. In fact, it’s worse than being against Christianity.

I hope the question you have in your mind at this point is: How can we be like God again? How can we love again? We will answer to this question from this point on!

So come back for our next post!