RE: Love, valuing, appreciating vs Submission
December 2, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2014 at 11:13 pm by Mystic.)
(December 2, 2014 at 11:03 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(December 2, 2014 at 10:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Worship is high adoration. It's the highest classification of adoration and honoring. That means it's love. If people worship God and act of adoration to him, that's an act of love.
Submission implies they do it out of a sense of duty.
Although we should love God, we shouldn't love God because we should love him, we should love him out of love for who he is and it shouldn't be out of a sense of duty.
Worship of God should be in the spirit of love.
Yes but it's the love of a subordinate. It's the dog loving the hand that feeds it.
Although one of our relationships is that God sustains us, provides us spiritual nourishment to our souls, and created the world, I personally love God for more then that. I love God because I know it appreciates goodness, it honors compassion mercy and justice, and I know it values many paths, loves various types of relative paths of humans and non-humans alike, is ultimately peace, is the station of absolute dignity and honour, possess all goodness, is maximum love, is the most praiseworthy, has ultimate wisdom, and is the companion of the journey. I see creation as an act of love and I appreciate his love by love. His greatness has no bounds. I love him because there is nothing to be loved but that is found in his essence, and he is the all-beloved the all-value.