The Central theme of Life is Love.

  I love studying the sacred books. Looking for a single theme in the “good” book, the Bible today….fun trying to find the core message….the crystalized essence of the message. The one that is always true and applicable, practical-the transformative word.

  Looking at the whole story of the Bible as the gospel story, or good news for humanity and the earth today…about God’s relational Love for us, and constant sacrificial intervention that we might know intimate relationship with Him and one another, ourselves and nature. First section of St John’s gospel reveals that God was relational even before creation (The Word was with God…etc)

 Through all the covenants, agreements and interventions into history, He is always trying to make His Love available. Looking at the same relational loving God through all the generations of His purposes (not just age, but purposes) of revealing His Love and making it accessible to His creation. The whole book is good news.

  Good news you can dive into from any part of the grand narrative, and meet God in His Love. The central theme is relational sacrificial love. Sometimes it’s good to re-visit the main point.

 Think of the whole story as the gospel, about God’s love and desire for intimate relationship with His Creation-to catch us up, and draw us into His Love, which is our home, where we belong.

 The book tells one long narrative, with one theme, but multiple types of interventions to express it—Adam, Noah, Abram, Moses, David, Jesus (and all the women, children and seekers, disciples and thinkers, poets and dreamers and those not willing to close off to the possibility of Love in each era!)…and throughout-one story summed up in Jesus’ prayer for Oneness in John 17.

 That we would be one as He and His Father are—that we would be caught up in that Love within the relational God. That’s the theme of the whole story. Nice to think of the big story sometimes, and look for the main theme. And to contextualize your own times in that loving.

  Also, to quote from my dream last night, something fresh was being offered now: “A quickened depth of communion in and with His Love is being offered now for practical reasons; a deeper love for one another would be the overflow of that higher union. Go further vertically to bless more deeply laterally!”

 I liked the idea of a “quickening love”. The word for quickening means to “be brought into living communion suddenly.” Nice hopeful word from my dreams last night. Looked up the word for quickening, it means fast deep union with….maybe necessary in our times! Anyway, todays deep thoughts by me. Sometimes, the central theme is still the main thing—receiving and overflowing Love, and being willing to sacrifice to bring that fragrance of Life to one another. Or, as Van Gogh said: “To know God, is to love things deeply.”