Replying to 6c90277f...

It’s this God we call “Abba”, not because of fear and threat, but because of love and promise. We do not call God “Abba” because God is terrifying; we can only God “Abba” when this is the one we would run to, climb into the lap of, want to be around just because. To shriek[6] “Abba!” is to know the one we run to in our need, bombarded by world-induced-fear, and in the troubledness of the conscience. Fear would beckon us into the anything “not God”; love beckons us into nothing else but God.

https://laurenrelarkin.com/2023/07/23/we-hope-because-we-are-loved/

Avatar
David Todd McCarty 2y ago

nostr:npub1aarkd53vurleygvamp5fkp9v0krnycf4xluskxzp02wqklgrcf0stv8msx nostr:npub1gd7nk9u287uufqhye9s2q97w0q3786cwvcgt2uj869tc0mfds6eqxdazt6 I wish that were true. I was Christianity was as transforming as we were told. All I see from this community is hate and fear. I don’t see love. I don’t see compassion. I don’t see the humility of someone who believes they have been forgiven a great debt.

I wish I did.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

No replies yet.