Light Writes

Hi Love.  Welcome to “Light Writes”! “May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.  Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.” — Ephesians 3:19 We can never fully understand God’s love (Eph. 3:19).  Nonetheless, we can seek and appreciate the understanding we do gain of it. A reflection of God’s love is demonstrated in the way He uses His sovereignty. He is able to do anything; to give you a desire to move in His Will without your consciousness of it, to shift anything into position, to bring two people into alignment, and yet He moves and shifts with grace and peace. His will and purpose prevail, and are unavoidable. This is apart of what characterizes His sovereignty. He is able to do anything but exist as one He is not.   God wills good, and causes only good.  How can we trust that the bad that happens is not caused by God? By trusting His character; His holiness, that He can only be good. His w

Hello, I’m Light . Welcome to— Many Christians are mentally in bondage, avoiding sinning solely out of a fear of judgement and eternal damnation. Accepting our freedom, we have yet to. I suppose it is because we are of the belief that this is the intent of God.  Upon pondering this and considering the nature and character of God as love, I have resolved that I do not believe that the aforementioned is God's desire or intent for those who follow Him. A loving God, I reckon, would invite us to obey after having found sound reason for and benefit in obedience rather than merely in fleeing from a source of fear like wrath. (Wrath has already been poured out on Christ; there is none now to be received for those who believe in Him). Don’t you reckon so, too? Instead of being slaves in ignorance, our loving God invites us to be of the mindset of following and avoiding sin with reason and understanding.   When we understand why an action is good or bad, we live freely, and are better eq