Love God or Die

Love God or Die

After reading some enthralling dietary laws in Leviticus I cam upon a proposition in chapter 26, “Love me or you get no land, no grains and grapes, you will run from imaginary enemies and eventually eat your own children.” –GOD

Maybe I am starting to see why the world isn’t too cozy with God.  He has been saying this for a long time now.  Either you accept Him for all that he is or be mercilessly killed…to death.  That is pretty much it. Among all the cool postmodern Christian ways of evangelizing and doing church the bottom line is… to love God or Die. Our music is cool and our political scene is changing, our lives are certainly purpose driven, but the idea hasn’t changed.  He has wrath and people do experience it.

We must respond to this ultimatum.

The key though are two extremes that present themselves. Let us reword…

1. Love God or….experience pain and suffering to the uttermost realizing a state of being where there is no pleasure or joy, feeling what aloneness really is.

2. Experience a love so everlasting and full you will never want; all things will be repulsive to you compared to the love offered and live life with a continual knowledge that you are valued more than anything in the universe…or die.

Whatever extreme one has been presented with will determine their outlook on the ultimatum.   Most get the first. They don’t like the fact that option B is on the table and to them A (love God option) doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because they don’t too often see someone in love with God.  The restructured version (#2) of option A isn’t presented to them. Their options then become WRATH OF GOD and… the lifestyle of option A choosers, which doesn’t live up to its potential.  So to dodge the whole issue and escape damnation (B) or the mundane (A), the whole thing is dismissed by higher learning and easier religion.

Souls are meant to be spent. Where we spend it is what matters. Humans want option A, we want it bad. We want to give ourselves to something, anything to reassure our worth. We trample each other into the store to buy option A, doing the worst to ourselves and others to get what we think our souls can buy. Somehow we are seen at the returns desk some time later only to get store credit and buy something new we think is as good as option A. Nothing will placate us till we get what we pay for!!



How many option A choosers actually spend their whole spiritual currency on Option A? If one spent their whole soul to only God’s love what would be the result? One man did do it…his whole existence was devoted to giving all of himself to God…he got option B in return.