Love's leading - 6

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Love leads & I would follow where it walks,

and how it walks - on water, or on land,

and why it walks, and acts, and thinks, & talks;

its ends & means I’ll try to understand.

And simply trust it to enable this

small child of that creative love which breathes

its life, and wisdom, love through ev’ry kiss

to raise a kind of animal that sheaths

creative love itself displaying it

to all the rest of God’s creation here

on Earth, but maybe too in hea’en a bit,

the Lamb that’s Worthy made deeds here appear

which fleshed out love as verb of time & space,

which makes all matter, energy to be

and move about, creating more a place

called home, right here within the world we see,

while also trusting that creative love

embodied in Yeshua to do more

as Senior Partner to bring “from above”

a new creation growing well before

it’s quite apparent to the world at large,

for now is its confinement in the womb -

a secret place where God’s great entourage

encounters life on earth, thus ev’ry tomb.

And so each day we take our cross up and

then follow in the footsteps of our Christ -

true Son of Adam, we must understand,

but no less follow - as the sacrificed. …

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* HESED is the English transliteration of the Hebrew word חֶ֙סֶד֙ , used in the Hebrew Bible to communicate something like "covenantal love", steadfast love, family love, loving kindness, love that is based on your own word. It has been said (repeatedly) that the HESED of YHWH (creative love that simply IS) is a core attribute of God (Ex 33:19-34:11) & endures forevermore (Psalm 118; Ps136 etc) when this concept is translated into Greek in the New Testament it is expressed as ἀγάπῃ (transliterated in English as agapé) and that is then the word used in the Greek New Testament to express this kind of attitude, impetus, spirit, mindset of God himself, and therefore of his true children. It is the single verb in both the greatest command & the second command - just like it), as well as the initial impetus for all true actions, and the first fruit mentioned of the very spirit of God being displayed in a human life, and the top of the ladder of things to work with God on fruiting in human life, and it turns out that the greatest sin, bringing down the greatest judgement, is to miss the greatest command ( Matt 22:35-40; 24:12; Luke 6:31-36; John 3:16-21; 5:19-42; 13:1-17, 33-35; 14:1-7; John 14:15-31; 15:9-17; Rom 8:38-39; Eph 3:14-19, 5:1-2; Col 3:10-17; 1Cor 12:31-13:13; 1Pet 4:8; 2 Pet 1:1-9; 1John 4:7-19; 2John 1:1-7 )

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