The first commandment- according to Jesus- is to LOVE the Lord your GOD.
NOT just with the mind
but with the heart, soul, strength
HEARTlessness is a problem which I think is rampant in the church
Romans 1:31
(NIV)they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
(KJV)Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Matt 24:12Because of the increase of wickedness,
the love of most will grow cold,
“The heart is deceitful…”
logismos is deceitful too
2 Cor 10:4-5 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds) Casting down logismos, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
“sets itself up against the knowledge of God“
KNOWing God is not just about the mind
any more than biblical KNOWing my husband in marriage is merely about a mental “connection”
“adam KNEW his wife Eve and she conceived”
That is why I compared CP with sex
I make an intimate deep connection EMOTIONALLY with God
I FEEL God
and I feel sorry for those who don’t. I wish everyone could FEEL God.
I believe this is available to ALL the saints, but logismos gets in the way:
Eph 3:16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19And to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
