Showing posts with label Mick Mooney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mick Mooney. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

God is love, and his love is a God-sized-love

"God is love, and his love is a God-sized-love. We can't compare his love to our love. His love is cosmic sized. His love is big, no bigger, no it's BIGGER. It's bigger than we can even comprehend. It's bigger than our own definition of love. It's a completely divine love.

It's a love with no faults and no limitations. It's a love that never fails. It's a perfect love. It's beyond our own definition of love. We only see a glimpse of it. A tiny piece of its whole, but what we see blows our minds.

What we see inspires us to love likewise. What we see is just a fraction of the whole, and the whole of God's love is BIG. BIGGER. Keep going.... its bigness never ends. It's like the universe: Unending, ever expanding, and undefinable".

"Although I can't possible fully understand how great a privilege it truly is, I'm blessed beyond measure to know that God is holding me within his cosmic-sized love." Mick Mooney
"And our God has more than enough love and Grace for ALL who are hurt and confused about WHO they are in this life".
It is good to meditate on the love of God that is unending and limitless. Yes, like the universe that is infinite and yet ever expanding, so is the expansive yet inclusive love of God. NASA describes the universe as infinite in extent.
"If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is flat like a sheet of paper, and infinite in extent."

Someone commented in this website that "Incidentally, if the universe is infinite now it has always been infinite, even at the Big Bang. This is why you'll often hear it said that the Big Bang wasn't a point, it was something that happened everywhere."

I think this may align with the panentheistic view of "All is in God", as we are all included in God, including the universe with all the stars and planets and living beings such as ourselves. It is reassuring then to know we are included and safely held within God's cosmic-sized love, as Mick Mooney put it in his quote. 

Yes, our God has more than enough love and Grace for ALL who are hurt and confused about WHO they are in this life. Whenever we are being rejected or sidelined by the society that try to make us conform to their norms and expectations to become something we are not, we can take refuge in the knowledge that God always loves us and accepts us for who we really are - beloved sons and daughters of God. 
Young's Literal Translation (YLT) 1 Peter 5:10
10 And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you];

Yes the God of all grace will perfect us with his/her love that casts out fear, and establish and strengthen and settle us in the knowledge of our true divine identity. It is good for our heart to be established by grace.


Monday, October 15, 2012

How religion separates people based on ideology and belief system

Someone wrote in Yahoo Answers:
"If you are not sure and convicted for what you stand for, you will and can fall for anything. I cannot see, anyone, man or woman, having encountered and experienced the Love of the Lord Jesus, can attest to the salvation that they received and have had a genuine touch from God, easily go into a marriage with someone who is against Christ's diety, His Person and Work" 
The above quote is an example of how the Christian religion is separatist, elitist and sectarian in nature as it divides people based on their ideologies and belief systems. Those who adhere to the Christian religion are often divided over doctrines and may feel pressurised into pledging allegiance to whichever sect or denomination is preaching doctrines that align with their personal beliefs (and bias and prejudices). It is almost as if they fail to see that such indoctrination has made them self-righteous Pharisees who use their religion to judge and condemn other people for living and making decisions that offend their sanctimonious religious sensibilities. It could also be that they are living in their own prison of fear as they are afraid of "displeasing" the idolised god of their imagination, and they are projecting that fear onto other people. 
On a similar note, here's sharing a short story "A Father, A Son, A Cigarette, And Jesus" by Mick Mooney, which does a good job to illustrate how some people in the Christian religion typically use guilt and shame to control and manipulate others to try to make them conform to their socio-religious norms.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Armed with Love

"To arm oneself with hatred and judgmental accusations takes no courage. No, the courageous are the ones who arm themselves with love". Mick Mooney
I agree with Mick Mooney's quote that the courageous ones arm themselves with love because love wins at the end of the day. Jesus was naked and armed only with love at the cross when the religious people were throwing accusations at him, and he prayed for their forgiveness for they knew not they were doing. After he rose again, many of them heard about how he had loved them and experienced a change of heart. Indeed, the weakness of God confounds the might of man.