It'll probably sound so stupid, but I only understood today what the campaign that inspired me to start this blog means. Yeah, I mean, not the campaign itself, I've seen videos about it and read what's written about it, but the concept is what I had missed and just came to me today.
"The name is not I heart revolution, is The 'I heart' Revolution", I heard this phrase from Joel Houston (in the All of The Above DVD bonus I guess), but I had not quietly understood it till today.
Now that I understand it I think it's even better!!
Of course that as I think too much once I understood I found myself thinking about "hearting".
I wonder so many times, do I heart the way I should? What does it mean anyway? "I heart". Well, I'm sure that there are lots of explanations about the matter, but at the end is love something that can be explained by men? Are we capable of loving the way we should? I'm sure we are because Jesus said we should do that and I'm pretty certain that He'd not ask me to do something that I could not do, not that I can do anything without His help anyway, but the point is that "to heart" is a possible complicated hard misunderstood thing.
I mean, I've always been the kind of person that wants to be polite, then sometimes I think that I heart people because I try to be polite, but... it's not the same thing, to be polite is one thing, to heart is another. Maybe I can't heart if I don't act polite, but acting polite does not mean that I heart.
Then there comes those "helping" people, the kind of people that volunteers themselves for anything they can, they usually make me feel like I don't love at all, because as much as I care, I never cared enough to do something about it, so, does that mean that I don't love? Does love has a measure? Uhm, maybe you can only say that you really heart something when you get to the edge of doing something about it.
I can think of the example of a couple, a man can "love" a woman his whole life, but if he keeps this to himself maybe he'll never truly love her, so at the end maybe if his love was not enough to make him do something about it it was not love at the first place.
I don't want to create any definition, but I guess that for me love is that feeling that makes you do something about what/who you love, otherwise it's not love, love is what brings the right attitude, is what makes us not doing something we know would disappoint someone we love, is what makes us stop talking about starving children in Africa an start doing something about it... I know few people whom I saw doing something about anything, we are all so stuck in our thoughts, in our small lives, in getting the things we want, sometimes even in just trying to make the day having food and a place to spend the night, that we almost never do something about our loves, this if we ever loved for real (since I said that if you don't do something about it then it's not love).
Well, God loved the world, so He sent His only son to die for our sins; Jesus loved us so He died for our sins and then rose again so we can have eternal life and direct access to the Father and the Holy Spirit living in us, so, for me, if we want to do what Jesus told us to do (Love your neighbour as yourself), we gotta do something for the others... it surely won't change God's love for us, we are loved by grace, not by deed, but it'll please Him, and there is nothing better in this world, there is nothing that can make us feel so good as to please the Father.
Let's heart, that's the biggest revolution, it can change the world and mostly it can change ourselves!!
No comments:
Post a Comment