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Marlene:
What, I want to add to this is about Love. I believe, all the other traits fall into place, when we learn to love like God. We humans pick and choose who we love for the most part.

I learned a hard lesson, as a young girl about loving someone who does not love you back. It is the most painful thing we can go through. Even, though he did not love me back, I never lost my love for him. But, I also learned you survive it. I do not regret loving him since I became older. I have seen a purpose for that in my life. True Love helps us to get the other traits of Christ such as honesty, patience, longsuffering , etc. I for one know that no one can love me like Christ. We have no guarantee when we fall in love it will work out.

In this physical life I find that Love can hurt. It hurts if you think you give all the love and get nothing in return. It hurts when some one you love is dying and you cannot help them or control it. But, it teaches us to take our eyes off of the physical. I think most of this comes with age Alex. I think, it comes with growth. God wants us to experience the physical and I believe it is all a part of life here. It is a journey we take and then we find that it is temporary in pain and sorrow and also with some happy.

Oh, I long for the time when we all can be together in perfect love and joy and peace. I don't think God plans for us not to remember each other. I believe, that is just one of the joys we will receive is to be together again. That, Love won't be in the physical sense, but it will be wonderful and perfect. We will never cry again, if we loose in love. We will never cry cause someone is ill and leaving us.  Cause it will be the ulitmate Love like Christ.

Tonight, for some reason it hit me that in this country how blessed we have been. Not saying there are not people here with out money or food. But, when I see the little children dying and living in tents with holes. It makes me thank God. Why, God gives more suffering then joy or money ? Is a question I cannot answer. But, I do believe that our suffering builds character.  I do believe it makes you want to be with our creator. It makes you want to be a better person. It teaches you to love the unlovable. It teaches us not to judge. If, we have Love like Christ there will be no pain in this Love. All, this physical stuff leads us to Christ and makes us depend on him.

In His Love,
Marlene

lilitalienboi16:

--- Quote from: NoviceBeliever on September 14, 2009, 08:59:13 PM ---Alex:

I am including this excerpt from "Esther-The Destiny of Women" in hopes that it helps. http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5506.0.html

2 Cor 6:18  And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to Me sons and DAUGHTERS, says the Lord Almighty.

Did He leave women out?  No, “sons and daughters.”  Even though sons is used more often, daughters is in there, sons and daughters.  God will be a Father to His sons and daughters.  God is no respecter of persons.  

Gal 3:28  There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be NO MALE AND FEMALE; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

There is no male or female, you’re all one, you’re sons and daughters.  God is no respecter of persons.  

Alex, we are not male or female but are complete after the resurrection. GOD is allowing us these male/female relationships to show us the qualities that we will need to be complete.  It is similar to GOD showing us both good and evil, without one how would you know what the other was. NB


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Yes but it is the relationship, the interaction between the two, male and female, that i think is what makes life incredible! Why when God becomes all in all, do we have to lose that bond between our significant other, lose what made us so great together in life? Why can't we stay together,with that bond that makes us so close? I just don't understand. I have no problem loving God, having Him there in the end, as He is now, but in so much more real terms. I however don't like the fact that everything we built in this life with that other special person is from what it seems, no longer there, or at least not as it currently is in this life. I just don't get why it can't be.

Does that make sense? lol

NoviceBeliever:
Alex:  With all do love and respect, you gotta get out of your head a little bit....  You are focusing on the physical feelings you get from another.  I don't believe that God says we won't recognize the people that we loved in this life, BUT that we are complete in ourselves as a WHOLE spiritual being.  There is not need for the carnal feelings we have for another and really this is what you are speaking to.  I am not saying that people we are bound to here do not serve a purpose, but it's over, finito, finished.  Sorry dude, tough love.

lilitalienboi16:

--- Quote from: NoviceBeliever on September 14, 2009, 09:13:57 PM ---Alex:  With all do love and respect, you gotta get out of your head a little bit....  You are focusing on the physical feelings you get from another.  I don't believe that God says we won't recognize the people that we loved in this life, BUT that we are complete in ourselves as a WHOLE spiritual being.  There is not need for the carnal feelings we have for another and really this is what you are speaking to.  I am not saying that people we are bound to here do not serve a purpose, but it's over, finito, finished.  Sorry dude, tough love.

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Why does the LOVE for another human being, have to be a 'focus on physical feelings?'

I'm not talking about lust here. I understand the difference between love and lust. I also didn't say anything about not 'recognizing' others.

I am however, trying to explain my relationship with God, my "bond" - How and why i feel the way i do towards Him and why i feel so differently towards another human being, be they family, friend or lover.

No need for apologies :)

NoviceBeliever:
Alex:  You don't know me very well, but I am not one to apologize for something that I feel that I am right about, it may not be pretty, but there are some things I do know.  But that being said, I was not talking about lust, I was talking about the physical feelings (heart swelling, sweaty palms, can't live without, think of you all the time, answer each others thoughts, etc.) of being in love. What is to come, what we will experience in terms of love after the resurrection will be so far superior to anything we will contemplate during this life time that you won't even miss it.  This is just a little taste, this is the lesson, this is the joy that we are promised.  How could anything we experience even live up to that promise? This is what God has promised...how can we not feel close to HIM for that?Just you wait and see...and this I do KNOW!   ;)

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