Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
GOD IS LOVE
GOD IS LOVE
Anything living that is untamed is destructive of that which is tamed. Be it any animal or man.
Plants and rivers are trimmed and dammed, trained. Training, is simply one form of taming; also so-called "domestication."
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." This Bible verse means tame them!
Too many adults are untrained. So, their sons and daughters, and by descent their grandsons and granddaughters, are also untrained, untamed in the love of themselves or of others; being "undomesticated" they wreak havoc all around blithely.
Not loving oneself one cannot love one's fellow man nor God. Such a one who neither loves himself, his fellow man nor God is wild, reprobate, regenerate!
Love, self-love, is the lave and the lotion of their redemption. They lacked domestic love at home, as children and became warped by reason of its lack.
How now it may be inculcated, I cannot say. But, that it must be, I can say. God is love and life.
And in order for godliness to be restored to the earth, the new paradigm of love and life must displace that of lust and vice in persons, homes, cities, nations.