I don’t understand it when people say “love
the sinner, hate the sin.” The opposite of love is not hate; the
opposite of love is fear.
Fear is the absence of love, fear is a separation from love. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” I John 4:18, KJV.
It is our duality that makes us who we are. It is the combination of our spiritual nature and our fleshly nature that gives us our individuality. We cannot be filled with love on one hand, and be filled with hate on the other. This is incongruent with the divine nature of God. If we see others as God sees us, do we not see the righteousness that we’ve become? It appears to me that to tell someone “I love you, but I hate your sin” sets us up for becoming the judge of what is wrong or right. We cannot be the arbitrator of what is right and wrong because we are not unbiased. We do not look through eyes of perfect love at ourselves or others. If we did, we would only see the luminosity that is the divine in each of us. God cannot be separate from us, because he is in all, and in him we live, and move, and have our being.”
I remember being told “the anointing breaks the yoke.” The anointing is the love of God. There can be no other force that cast out fear.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
Fear is the absence of love, fear is a separation from love. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” I John 4:18, KJV.
It is our duality that makes us who we are. It is the combination of our spiritual nature and our fleshly nature that gives us our individuality. We cannot be filled with love on one hand, and be filled with hate on the other. This is incongruent with the divine nature of God. If we see others as God sees us, do we not see the righteousness that we’ve become? It appears to me that to tell someone “I love you, but I hate your sin” sets us up for becoming the judge of what is wrong or right. We cannot be the arbitrator of what is right and wrong because we are not unbiased. We do not look through eyes of perfect love at ourselves or others. If we did, we would only see the luminosity that is the divine in each of us. God cannot be separate from us, because he is in all, and in him we live, and move, and have our being.”
I remember being told “the anointing breaks the yoke.” The anointing is the love of God. There can be no other force that cast out fear.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
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