Paul the Apostle repeats the impact of God's Law, the Law of Love. Jesus so teaches this law, that it is hard to fathom how we can so easily draw away and become confused in the temporal aspects of the temporal human's existence. One must constantly pray to live God's Law of Love with every moment of thought, emotion, spirit and soul--in some ways leaving the temporal body behind while learning to love others as God loves, yet while asking of our bodies to heed that of God's law of love.
If we read something that is confused in length and purpose, the intent becomes that of twisting threads of temporal mind and emotions into knots of more temporally created confusion. Then that which we read (or attempted to read) is not of God's love, but rather that of the temporal love of self, that of creating yet more temporal confusion of laws created by humankind to further elevate the self.
If when trying to exist in other than Christ's simple teachings--and this ca be of those who twist God's law of love into laws of temporally confused words of more power, prestige, privilege, possession and politicization of self, including trying to garner more like-selves as followers of such human-made laws, the simplicity of God Is Love is lost to that person or of what comes out of such a person's temporalized view of the numinous love of God.
To love others as oneself presupposes one's self is in Christ, in God, in the Holy Spirit. This is the every-moment assessment of self that is so necessary. To love as God loves, one must be in God. To love as Christ loves, one must be in Christ. To love as the Holy Spirit loves, one must be a vessel of the Holy Spirit. To be consumed with the temporal world--even the temporal world of humankind's temporalization of the Church by the human-created laws which involve yet more temporalization of one's existence in what is a temporalized church--then God's Law of Love is lost to those temporal humans.
This includes the path of life upon which God sets each of us, in whatever format that may be expressed in words. Those who are so temporal as to not be able to envision a life lived in the Love of the Holy Trinity are not of those of temporal nor spiritual association. The temporalization of Christ's Church, including the living according to laws created by humankind even if thinking is for Christ's Church, is to have lost the only "law" necessary, and that is that of the love of God and love of others as God loves.
A vocation is not a temporal law. A vocation of God's calling, ordaining, and consecrating has to do with God and the soul of the person to whom God calls, ordains, and consecrates to Himself in His "law" of Love of God, and love of others through, with, and in God's Love.
Thus, this is all rather simple, is it not? Christ built His Church upon the law of God's love. Love God above all else, love others as God loves, which is loving through, with, and in God's Love. The primary initial and eternal task is to love, to love to learn to love God. Be draw into His Real Presence in love, not be drawn into temporalized laws of humankind's temporal creation.
A former priest, now an eremite, has asked regarding his leaving the one call to enter into another. It is simply a matter of God's Law of Love. God led him out of the one vocation and into the other, despite initial despair of wondering if he had too hastily left the one of which increasingly are temporal laws involving protocols to take leave and then more temporal laws in order to return if even feasible. Then God gave to the man priest, God's way of Love, and of love of the poor and hungry, and love of the God-created earth and seeds. Then came from God to the man, also the eremitic path, free of temporal laws; for if one is led by God to follow His simple love call to the desert, this may be the desert of the poor whose need is that of food to sustain them.
The God-called soul thus entered into God's call of a vocation into the desert of God's leading and providing. God called, God consecrated this former priest as one of His hermits. The man in God's love has since helped the poor and hungry in a land of which the poor are being taught to sustain the earth and grow their own food which is good for their bodies--but which also is very good for the renewability of the beloved soil of the earth that God created.
All is well now with that soul, now a priest forever, more of the Order of Melchizedek than of temporal church laws, and an eremite in the desert of life, yet in the fullness of love of God and love of others as God loves. He exists in the depths of the Law of Love Is God without temporal-created-by-humankind- laws of temporal words which create more temporal questions needing more temporal unraveling, than ever does require of God's Law of Love.
Be at peace within and without, in God's Law. The Law of God Is Love. Ponder, embrace, think, feel, and live in the Trinity of God's Love. It is quite simple. Breath by breath, consider what is God's love in each action, thought, feeling, and of what one's soul and spirit contains. Obsession with the laws of humankind's temporally constructed laws of the temporal (even of the temporalized church), or freedom in the simplicity and eternal fecundity of God's Law of Love. Love God above all else and love others as God loves--even more so than one can love oneself (for love of self is rooted in God's love of each of us).
This is truly simple, is it not?
Reference, Letter to the Romans 13: 8;
"Brothers and sisters: Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."
[Attempted to read some lengthy, online writings of obsessions with the temporal. I was left needing relief for the eyes and stomach, the mind, heart, and soul. I write the above as a reminder to self and any others. Obsesssion with the temporal laws created by humankind (including for the church) is not in kind with God's law of Love. Pray God, keep us on the path of God's Law of Love. There is the Law of Love in Christ with Christ as Head of His Church; there is the Law of Love for those who are in Christ, in God, and in the Holy Spirit who comprise the Body of Christ: the Church. Temporal laws created by temporalized humankind are not God's Law of Love. Temporalized laws create more questions, problems, divisions, and chaos--not peace nor love of God above all things, not love of others as God loves, not as love of the self as loved by God. Stay clear of such; protect my soul.]
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