Amor

Celaka!
Celakalah manusia!
Celakalah aku!
Celakalah kamu!
Celakalah kita!
Celakalah mereka!

Hancur
Sesat
Fasik
Buta
Tuli
Beku
Terbelenggu
Munafik.

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Another weeks of contemplation. What is going on here? In the light of the Gospel, You show me my mistakes and open my eyes to the others. We are in the end of disunity!

Can't you see? The heart of a man is the most rotten place in the world.

Additionally, (Sincerely, I don't wanna say but I have to admit it) there were people out from ministry/Christian because they did not feel love anymore..
Why do we do that?
Do we lost the purity of love? Or are we just loving the others in a wrong manner?

Look at the past...
The First Letter of John stated clearly: 'God is Love". Yeah, we worship God of Love!
Apostle John in his letter to Corinthians stated in the beginning of the chapter: "I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a noisy cymbal."

Unfortunately, sometimes we fail in love

Someone said on her sermon, "We are hard loving each others not because not loving them, but because we are loving ourselves too much."

The heart of a man is the source of the problem.

We do not overcome flesh by flesh. Even more, it is very impossible! That is why, the only way to overcome sin in Gospel way is crying out loud, "Abba, Father" as written by Apostle Paul to Romans.

Ya Abba. ya Bapa! Harus diakui mengasihi itu sulit.
Kadang ga habis pikir, mengasihi saudara aja sulit, gimana mau mengasihi musuh? Tapi, Engkau mengasihi kami yang adalah seteru-Mu dan bahkan Engkau mengangkat kami jadi anak-Mu. Yang harus diubah bukanlah mereka, namun hati kami. Sama seperti Kristus membuktikan kasih-Nya kepada kami, kiranya kami boleh membuktikan kasih kami kepada-Mu dan kepada sesama. Syukur Injil sekali lagi boleh menerangi hati ini.

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Wanna hear a story? This is the greatest romance story ever happened in the world. You will not find another story like this. It seems a tragedy at first, but in the end we will find the definition of true love.

Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day
The soldiers tried to clear the narrow street
But the crowd pressed in to see
A Man condemned to die on Calvary

He was bleeding from a beating, there were stripes upon His back
And He wore a crown of thorns upon His head
And He bore with every step
The scorn of those who cried out of his death

Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering
Like a lamb came The Messiah, Christ The King
But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa all the way to Calvary.

"If you are looking for a definition of love, we should look not in a dictionary, but at Calvary."
John Stott