If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God* whom he has not seen.
It seems totally easier to me to love someone you can't see than someone you can. How can you help but love someone you can't see? Especially if they're perfect! Easy-peasy.
Perhaps the theory of Christianity has always been easier to me than the practice. Even now, when people around me ask me how I can believe in Christianity and not doubt--the theoretical belief for me is totally easy. My doubt comes in when I try to live it out in practice--to gratefully accept the suffering that God allows me to face. When the rubber hits the road and I'm supposed to embrace my cross, alls I have is disbelief and doubt and rejection and anger.
Yesterday, on the other hand, has one of my favorite and most hopeful readings ever:
God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
When I read this, I become a universalist.
2 comments:
I'm with you in finding it hard to gratefully accept suffering. This lecture helped me a bit: https://m.soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/finding-consolation-in-the-book-of-revelation-prof-nina-heereman
Thanks for sharing!
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