On Love and Admiration!

What is Love? Is it the same as admiration? Why do these two questions even matter? In answer to the last of these, the question of whether there is any real difference between love and admiration has serious consequences for our salvation.

As for the first question above, I will observe that love is simply the command of God! If we are Christians, we do not have a choice as whether to be everyone's friend down here; we simply have to be!We cannot cut anyone off; are you on drugs or something? The whole business reveals that while love does have some emotional aspects, in reality it was nothing more than a mere decision. If there are some who do not love, it's only because they haven't decided to do so yet. Hence, love must really be nothing more than respect.

That answers the first question. Now, what of admiration? Well, when it comes to admiration, we only truly do those that are most like ourselves. Obviously, then, most Christians, including clergy, are lost, for in reality it is very rare to find anyone down here that actually admired Jesus' act the way I did as a nine year old boy!

No, love and admiration are not the same thing! We always love who we admire, but we don't always admire them we must love. Know for sure, that if after reading the gospels for the first time, you admired Jesus, that He did you as well. Think about what it means to have the arrant admiration of the only God there is. How great is God and the angels, even all the holy men and women of ancient times that they should actually admire you? Know that if you were a young person that admired Jesus, you were the most multi-talented and gifted individual on earth! This fact has been borne out here in my case. If you admired God, you were God! Everyone knows or at least should know that God is their friend. When it comes to the kind of people that God actually acknowleges as his own, however, there is a rub. The reason admiration is more important than love is that only real friends do one another. Because real friends are always equals, the man that admired God was the Almighty Himself; life is just too boring without equals, this is exactly why such people do actually exist in creation! These are not merely Jesus' servants, but His friends! Think about what it means to be able to hang out every day you are alive with God Himself- to be the Lord's intimate confidante! Can just anybody hang out with the President of the United States or the Pope?! My Lord, what of Jesus Himself, the King of glory!
What an incredible honor!Now, perhaps you can finally understand why it was so important to love God like you have always been told to. Especially you, O Israel!
Next time, just do it!

Peace!