Comments on: love relentlessly: part ii http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/ don't wander. enter in. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:53:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joy http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Joy Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:16:23 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-90 saw this quote today Brian...and thought of you, Day 12 and the blog post: " Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." - Toni Morrison, writer and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature saw this quote today Brian…and thought of you, Day 12 and the blog post:
” Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” – Toni Morrison, writer and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature

]]> By: Brian http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Brian Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:37:32 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-89 Chrisitan...thanks again for stopping by the blog and for the insight. Jessica...thank you for the raw honesty and i agree: it is difficult; very very difficult! that is why we have to lean on God to forgive. He desires for us to come to Him for the power to forgive. When we do that, He can give us the grace it takes to forgive. keeping fighting the good fight... Chrisitan…thanks again for stopping by the blog and for the insight.

Jessica…thank you for the raw honesty and i agree: it is difficult; very very difficult! that is why we have to lean on God to forgive. He desires for us to come to Him for the power to forgive. When we do that, He can give us the grace it takes to forgive.

keeping fighting the good fight…

]]> By: Jessica http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Jessica Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:50:48 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-88 I am in some serious denial right now that forgiving is better than hating....ugh, it is not that easy! But this definitely has made me think and feel like it is holding me back in so many other areas of my life! Thanks for the great post Brian!!! I am in some serious denial right now that forgiving is better than hating….ugh, it is not that easy! But this definitely has made me think and feel like it is holding me back in so many other areas of my life! Thanks for the great post Brian!!!

]]> By: Brian http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Brian Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:01:33 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-87 i think it is all of the above...Jesus, afterall, returns on His horse dressed for the battle. That being said...I completely agree with you. You are correct that my use of the warrior image has everything to do with the war that is waged between spirit and flesh. Flesh wants to be right and to lash out and love wants to forgive. It is a war inside of us to love as Christ loved. To love takes a relentless pursuit of the Spirit-led life. What a battle! i think it is all of the above…Jesus, afterall, returns on His horse dressed for the battle. That being said…I completely agree with you. You are correct that my use of the warrior image has everything to do with the war that is waged between spirit and flesh. Flesh wants to be right and to lash out and love wants to forgive. It is a war inside of us to love as Christ loved. To love takes a relentless pursuit of the Spirit-led life. What a battle!

]]> By: Joy http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Joy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:01:16 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-86 Totally see the imagery of a warrior who understands that love his a 'battle' spiritually...one that takes courage to be fully present in. Yet, more than a warrior dressed for battle...I picutre love as a bruised and broken Jesus...who demonstrated the cost of ultimate love by choosing to willfully lay down His own life... refusing to retalitate...refusing even to encourge his disciples to violently take- up His 'offense'...He himself did not engage in hateful or violent speech against those closest to him who betrayed him or those who handed him over to be cruicified...and most astonishingly...he continued to extend this love, perhaps present in radical forgiveness even then... to the men who crucified him. This is love...to lay down your life ( figuratively or literally) for another. I know I have a long way to go in loving like that. Totally see the imagery of a warrior who understands that love his a ‘battle’ spiritually…one that takes courage to be fully present in.
Yet, more than a warrior dressed for battle…I picutre love as a bruised and broken Jesus…who demonstrated the cost of ultimate love by choosing to willfully lay down His own life… refusing to retalitate…refusing even to encourge his disciples to violently take- up His ‘offense’…He himself did not engage in hateful or violent speech against those closest to him who betrayed him or those who handed him over to be cruicified…and most astonishingly…he continued to extend this love, perhaps present in radical forgiveness even then… to the men who crucified him. This is love…to lay down your life ( figuratively or literally) for another.
I know I have a long way to go in loving like that.

]]> By: Christian http://www.day12church.com/2010/02/love-relentlessly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Christian Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:44:20 +0000 http://www.day12church.com/?p=422#comment-85 One of the things I always remember is that "Forgiveness isn't for the forgiven, it's for the forgiver." We are releasing their control over our lives, our emotions, moving towards living out the love of Christ in our lives. One of the things I always remember is that “Forgiveness isn’t for the forgiven, it’s for the forgiver.”

We are releasing their control over our lives, our emotions, moving towards living out the love of Christ in our lives.

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