Where Did That Little Booger Learn That?

I have 4 wonderful children. I love them so very much and they love each other so. From an early time I developed rules for my home. Rule #2 is follow directions. This works well until the time when following direction goes in a complete opposite direction of what they want to do. Now they follow directions quite well but sometimes their attitude is rather sour. They do but in such a way that they do with spite. I try and teach them why I have them do what I ask so that they can learn and grow and become well rounded persons with well rounded hearts. Often I have seen some follow God's will but for the wrong reasons. They do so because it is the "law" and not because they want to. They do so because they want to stay out of trouble, rather than do so out of love. As my children follow my example I often have to question what I am doing as well as why I am doing. Am I doing out of love from examples that Jesus has taught me or am I doing out of spite or obligation. God is love and wishes communion with us all. He sent his son Jesus to teach us how to love his father God and how to love each other. While so many fear God and his vengeance many also over look the love that God wishes to give. Everything that Jesus taught was from his father and therefore know that his father is true perfect love. It may not always provide what we want, but it does provide what we need.

John 5:17-30

17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working." 18This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. 19Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. 20For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel. 21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 22The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 25"Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, 27and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. 28Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 30"I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.