I was reading my daily blog digest (because I'm technologically awesome and plugged in like that) and the blog of an old friend, who I never talk to anymore, really touched me. She wrote about something huge . . .
She wrote that Christianity is box-like, closed, limited, when Jesus, in actuality, is free. Christianity says what CAN we do, but Jesus says "WHAT CAN'T I DO?" For Christians, there are two things we can't do: drink and have sex until we're married. These two sins are almost put on a pedestal, as the worst sins, as the two sins that will mess up your life the most. But wouldn't it be interesting if we treated gossip just the same as sex before marriage, pride just the same as getting drunk? I wish my selfishness would make my friends look at me with the same distaste they would if they found out I was sleeping around. I wish my lack of love for my enemies would shock people just as much as my drunkenness would.
Something to think about . . . something to think about.
As my friend said, love is big. Love isn't something that fits into a box. I want to do that. I want to love outside the box. So how, then, do I really do that? How do I do more than just think about it?
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