Unconditional Love

A thought just struck me.

My problem with unconditional, free as a bird, self-less, pour-my-life-into-you kind of love is that it might be lost.

There is nothing that scares me more than imagining the ones I LOVE the most burning in hell for eternity.

What if I pour my life into someone who God will not save and they end up in hell? The pain in my heart is so strong about this, that I can hardly allow my thoughts ponder on this for more than a few seconds.

Yet I know that man is not worthy to be saved and that we are entirely sinful. God is so good to save even one person from what they deserve.

It still pains. Something I battle with. Yet, will I still say: "Jesus reigns!" on the Last Day? Yes, I think I will still say that.

Marriage!

Nope, not engaged or anything, but oh man have I been thinking a LOT about marriage the past few days! Our college group recently had a retreat and we went over What He Must Be by Voddie Baucham.

Here are some thoughts:

• If you do not love the church, you do not love Christ!

• Christians should love and value the institution of marriage because Christ loved and valued the institution of marriage.

• Christ was all about the church. He died for the church to be saved and raised with Him in glory! He is the Bridegroom and the church is his Bride. Marriage.
  

• Therefore, as marriage is a shadow of this very gospel (what Christ did for the church) (Ephesians 5) we should value the institution of marriage, praise the institution of marriage & raise our children up to do the same. However, by no means do I mean to hint that Christians should idolize marriage.

• We should love the church because Christ does. You can't love one without the other.
  

Someday...

I would like to transform a house into a home.

Sometimes...

...I'm walking a fine line.