Scripture// love

What is it about God's word that is so beautiful and at the same time so terrifying. I'm about to go off on this leadership retreat and realize that I have not read a word of scripture in almost a week.
I think it's the Truth that we find in scripture that is so amazing and so fearsome. The truth we find there reveals truths about ourselves. When we read His word and reflect on all God has done, all His work, His creation, and His sacrifices, and even more His promises, it provokes us to reflect on our work, what have we done, what have we sacrificed, how have we lived? And we grow to know and expect this from the Bible, and so sometimes it becomes the hardest book to read, even to open. Because between it's covers is reckoning, truth, freedom, and most fearsome of all, there is love. And Love holds the power to break, humble, reckon, tear down and build up, heal, make us new creations and give us a salvation from ourselves and our enemy. The scripture really is in it's essence: love. But we have to continue look at it as our freedom, even when that freedom comes at the price of personal sacrifice, and the pain of realizing how we have been living.

In Full View.

I haven't posted much in a while. It's because life has just been at a place that I would not have really taken joy in writing about. Slowly though, it's been picking up, there are still some spots that I need help in and need to be more pro-active in, but it'll never be perfect. And for all those little spots, I'm trying my hardest to remember to ask God about them/for help in them. Pride, I have come to realize, can be a sickness. I'm trying to find the Antibody.
Jason, Laura, and Kyle are doing this side project now, it's pretty epic. www.myspace.com/thevalleythemount . go and listen.
In other news, I'm pretty certain that I know what I'm going to get for my tattoo. It goes like this :Made In The Image Of Love. I want it in script. And in wanting this I have kind of thrown myself into the pursuit of finding out/knowing/accepting what this statement means. This is a statement of my own invention. And here is the logic that led me to make this statement: God is Love, We are Created in His image, We are able to love because He has loved us first, Being made in His image is what lets us Love. Therefore we are made in the image of love.
This is what I have made of it since: God is Love, We are Created in His image, We are able to love because He has Loved us first, We were Created purely to love, as in we were created purely for Him to Love us, His love is made complete in us. That is how we are made in the image of Love.
"We were Created purely to love, as in we were created purely for Him to Love us."
This is a conclusion that I came to last night while driving home from Guys Group. I was just telling God how silly and ridiculous it was for Him to Love me, we have this conversation a lot, God and I. And I started to say how He loves me unconditionally and illogically and stupidly and no matter what I do, because He Doesn't love me for anything that I DO. His love for me has nothing to do with what I have or have not done. It's always there and will always be there and always has been there. He loves me because that's what I was created for. He did not create me to just worship and love Him, He created me so that He could Love me. He created everyone so that He could poor out His unconditional and illogical, Greater, Agape Love on to us. And that's it. You ask why we exist, that is the closest answer I can come to. And that's why our greatest commandment is to Love Him and our second greatest commandment is to Love others. We should Love them because He created them for that purpose. If they are good enough for Him to love, then what makes us so damn special that we should not love them just as irrationally and irrevocably. This revelations is presently blowing my mind, and may just be what I need to really understand that I am Loved and just HOW Loved I am.
God, You love us....and oh, how You Love us.