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If God Exists, What Does He Want?


            Love is the foundation of every good friendship, of every strong family, of every good romantic relationship. If two persons are committed to each other for other reasons, then we're taking about business relationships, or unhealthy families, or shallow friendships, or short love affairs, or simply about two people working together or doing something together both of them like without a need for something more. These kind of relationships are important and right for certain situations, but of others can be catastrophic. For example, if you're an ambitious employee trying to go up the corporate ladder, it would be a good idea to be a master in strictly business relationships.
                But when you're a part of a family, or a friend of someone, or a girlfriend, then it would be a good idea to base your relationship/relationships on love. Love is a very difficult thing to describe nowadays, but let's just say that love is when two persons feel something and do something for each other for a hundred reasons, and not all of them can be explained.
Why are you good to your wife?
1. You want her to be good to you.
2. You want sex.
3. You want to avoid arguments.
4. You want to feel good about yourself.
5. You want to be liked.
There are other reasons too, but if there is a reason among them which is not mathematical, which is not linked to your gain, then you do love her.
                If God exists, if the Bible has anything to do with Him, than He wants you to have faith in Him, He wants you to trust Him, He wants you to do something for Him, but most of all, He wants you to love Him. And the difference between the best christian ever and the worst fanatic would be that everything you do for Him would be out of a hundred reasons, but one of them is unexplainable - one of them is love.
                If you look at the Bible, that is why faith is not enough. You can believe in His existence, but it can get you nowhere. You can be good to other people, but that can get you nowhere. You need to love Him only a little bit, and everything else will fall into its place. That is what the most logical and the most inspiring Bible verses will tell you.
                Putting the Bible aside, there is a logical reason for this. If God created persons, than he is a person at least. He is probably something more. How would a shapeless energy create something like that? Something even more complicated that itself?
Then we go a step further. If He created persons that are at their best when they love, than He is the One Who loves at least. He maybe feels something more than love. How could He create creatures that love if He isn't The Master of Love? And if he is The Master of Love, how would he let Himself surrender to feelings of hatred? He is God, He can do whatever He likes, He can feel whatever He likes. Why feel hatred if love is so much more pleasurable?
 Considering this, it seems that a loving God is the most reasonable description of Him, if He does exist. All this makes love as the number one element in relationship with Him - and if He created persons capable of relationship, He too is capable of them for sure. And if He loves, He wants them too.
                If we conclude that love would be the foundation of relationship with God, what does that mean for churches, books, organisations, buildings, administrations and everything that has been build around God? Does it do any good? It will be continued...

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