Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John.3:19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
3:21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

The motto of sinful humans is; “leave nothing to chance!” In other words, think of the worst first take no chances that way we are protected from unscrutabless person. The problem is how do we translate that into faith, and love for God, if we think evil of him?

James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Ultimately, that view is truth the for most of us that we cannot be known God accept by analytical deduction through the measuring our deduction by laws. This is the method most religions standards are set up by. Yes, the word is called methodology, and is where the Methodist church started from, a technique of analyzing the bible methodically, word for word verse by verse creating a doctrine of who God is, and what he wants!

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

However, as much as our own hearts resist it God says the only way to know him is by love, not methodology, but is God an unscrutabless person that we need to examine his every motive? Can we approach God and know God with anything less then love for God? Can we actually have faith if we first sees God as evil, eager to punish us and we must set ou through some methodology to prove he is not? Moreover, is that faith at all? The faith so many have been convinced of through research giving them faith in methodology to dismiss our fears? You see the point missing for the legalist is God loves us first it is his compelling love that brings us to love him. It is not God's compelling legal arguments that brings his children to him, but his kindly unending love for them, isn't that correct?

Titus.3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The apostle John states this that love, love of God in our hearts, and the love we show each other not by legally words written in the bible, but the compelling love of God is what moves all of God's children to help body members, our brothers and sisters having the same spirit of love found in Christ our body that gives us faith and love, not some legal technique or research!

Romans 15:30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Hence, when we uses legally logic taking no chances of being had, we love in word, we love like the world, in our flesh, the flesh is the world. We like the concept of God's love given us freely, but protectionism of being taken advantage of, stops our hearts from true love for God and each others. Subsequently, we are not compelled by God's love (Spirit) to openly handed to give freely to others. The pain and fear of being humiliated in our flesh that is the pride of our flesh shouts into our ear that we are stupid for giving because we will be taken advantage of, and mocked as a foolish person not educated enough to protect ourselves with good common sense found in good business practices.

Matt. 5:39 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
5:40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. 5:41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 5:42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,{Leviticus 19:18} and hate your enemy.{not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26}'
5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

We want to be shrewd, practical, and not be a fool with our giving, so we build a wall of legal reasons why we should not, and, thus, breaking one of them is a sin, a judgment that we will pay a price for. In all this, is what is called condemnation, we condemn ourselves, God and others because we don't want to be taken advantage of and looked bad before the eyes of this world as a fool!. But here the apostle John does not stop, he takes us into something so wonderful and profound that it helps us love God even more.

John 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John's tells us, even if our hearts condemn us, and they do, often, God love is greater then our own hearts and its evil reasoning. God knows what? Our sinful limitation on this earth that we can't go the distance, causing us to give out, we are condemn by not showing love as God shows us his love. But the power of God's love goes so far beyond that day, into a time, when love can't fail that it produces the perfect son's of God, in Christ imagine.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4}

You, see, if we only read our bibles like an attorney of law, parsing words to get a client off from judgment, we miss the truth in thinking God is a man like us, and not love! We didn't hear the truth, the whole truth, God's love is written to our hearts not laws! God loved (Not Lawed us) while we were yet sinners, not that we got around some legal judgment by cleverly analyzing words. You see, there is no condemnation for those in Christ (That is Love, not law!). The apostles John is so truthful that he does not say we don't have condemnation in our feeling in flesh and we don't judge ourselves and other harshly at times or that we shouldn't do more. All that is true by analytical judgment, but none of its true by God's love anointing us as his children. Now listen again, we have no condemnation in Christ. Our self judgments will not cause God to start condemning us, we really can't judge anything before its Christ time as our head to judge. Christ discipline his body members, not with the condemnation of death, but with life in view. You, see we are not on a graduating scale with God free gift of life (from love but we are by our analytical mind), we are not earning more of it everyday, or are we diminishing it each day. No! Its given freely and irrevocably (that is God's love not our love that is faulty). God will bring us to his stated purpose one way or another because he chose us when? (From love) Before we did anything bad or good, before we were alive in our sinful flesh, before the founding of this world that is birthed into corruption and sin.

1Cor.4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

Rom.8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Now its that love that is the truth, not our love, for we give out into condemnation because we can't measure up to God's glory, we cannot love in perfection, we cannot perfect ourselves, we cannot not be a sinner. If God was not greater then us (our hearts), for his name sake, for his own creation chosen before the founding of this world, if we were left to stand on our own?

Luke 12:32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Now we see, but a hazy outline of God's love, but then we will see clearly the unending power of God's love towards us. We will know freedom from our mortal weakness, our thorns in our flesh, we will have boldness knowing we have been made perfect in Christ priesthood in God's love.

1Cor.13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
13:10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.