At the Church of the blogger

Thank you for visiting my little church on the blogosphere.

You may have never been to church before, but don't worry. I promise you it will not be like going to those buildings with stained glass windows and medieval dirges piped through organs by people in long dark robes. I hope you will sense the presence of peace and love when you visit. For the purpose of Church of the Blogger is to spread words of life, hope, and wholeness. Jesus said, "I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly."

So that we are all on the same page, my definition of life is as follows: life is relationship. The opposite of life is death, and death is separation from good relationship. Abundant life means wholesome relationship with parents, spouses, siblings, friends, work associates, and other people in society as much as possible. In the Bible, the gospels speak of eternal life. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to God, the Father, but through me." Therefore, eternal life is life with the Eternal One. God is the Eternal, and "God is Spirit."

The reason I said I hope you sense the presence of peace and love is because God is peace and love. When God comes near a person or persons, they experience one of two things: peace and loving acceptance or guilt and fear. If you happen to feel fear or guilt, you have become aware of past moral wrongs. You are feeling that because the presence of God is near. Because God is holy without past moral sin, His presence produces awareness of unresolved breaches of moral law, which is what sin is. Moral law is innate in human nature and human society. Hence, when the Creator is near, those who have broken the moral laws he established in human nature become evident.

How does one deal with the moral culpability and subsequent feeling of guilt? Confess them to God and ask God to forgive you of those remembered sins. Do so for the sake of Jesus, which I will explain in another post. If you do, you will feel the burden of guilt dissipate and peace you may have never experienced before will ensue. At some point this will be followed by the loving acceptance of the presence experienced.

Hopefully, you are experiencing the peace and love of God. If not, I pray in the name of the one who accepted God's punishment for our moral crimes, when he suffered and died 2,000 years ago in order to fulfill the legal requirements of God's law so that we could receive the benefit of God's unmerited forgiveness and acceptance--the Lord Jesus is his name--that God will visit you before the day is over. When you realize God is real and near, this is called revelation.

Thank you Lord for your eternal sacrifice of love for our eternal reconciliation with our Creator.