All the rest are robbers – Jesus said all who came before him were robbers, and that the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I thought that was Satan, but I have learned that it’s Satan dressed as a wise and learned religious follower of enforcing his own personal understanding on the way towards thinking he’s probably assuming correctly about the ways in which mankind is suppose to be required to do actions so that the law of God doesn’t become a curse against himself and once he’s decided he’d figured out the steps through the mine field that everyone needs to enter the mine field at the same point and get to the other side of the mine field just like him. But Jesus disarmed the mines. So, why are there still religious know-it-alls telling everyone about the mines, as though they’re armed and about to go off? Because they refused salvation from God. Now, as a worker of Satan they have convinced themselves the rightness has been figured and all the sheep need to walk like they walk in fear and precision, utterly devoid of freedom and obsessed with locating mines they can’t see, rejoicing like fools every time they find one, and not acknowledging that the mines aren’t armed.

But Jesus didn’t unwrite a single word of the law!!!!

Yeah, and if you want to go apart from God you can lose your life to a motif of distraction and take a thousand fools with you by your anxious heart.

Or, you can enter salvation through Jesus and knowing the truth, you can enter into the heart of God, which is a hundred billion times the love capable of the human heart, as though the human heart were capable of shining as brightly as the sun, and God’s heart is a hundred billion suns. It burns through sin like lava burning through dust. It’s forgotten the moment the offense occurs. That’s how much God loves this world.

You cannot think your way to understanding love.

It’s knowledge by revelation, exclusively.

How or where is this access point, one might ask: disappointment.

If you’re still holding onto the idea that there’s probably one human being on the face of the planet who’s not an evil person: capable of evil, easily deceived, lustful into temptations that hurt everyone involved, you’re deceived. But I want to encourage you, when you’re heart truly breaks with disappointment at human evil, fully giving up that last rhetorical person. And you feel that utter disappointment, and truly giving up your ability to love evil people, while acknowledging that 100% of everyone is evil, but then you take your stoney, disappointed heart to God, confessing, “It’s everyone. I can’t love one of them, because no one deserves love as a reward for good behavior.” A miracle will happen. The Holy Spirit will crack open the stone. When God’s love is in there, you can look inside asking the question, “How is it possible for you, the author and standard of goodness, to love anyone, let alone, everyone?” And God answers you, “because I am good.” Looking inside the heart of God there is unconditional love too powerful for death, too loud to hear the voice of the accuser, too fast his love passes the accuser who stands at the moment of offense his accusations a whisper in the blink of an eye and at a distant of the moon from earth in a breath and before God’s shining heartbeat of love can calm to the point of speaking the love of God has passed beyond the Milky Way. The voice of the accuser has no audience within the love of God. He is good. We are evil, so long as we choose to be apart form God. But jokes on death, evil, and the accuser because God is good. Poor Satan, he works so hard. Pity he has nothing to build because he thought he’d make a better ruler than God, and since that didn’t pan out, he’s got nothing to build for himself anymore and so he’s stuck hacking at the lives of God’s children. But we are loved, by our God, who is good and who made us with such love his powerful perfect love speeds to our aid, the love of a father for his child. He loves us that much. Although I don’t understand why, he chose to give us the choice to love evil or love good: he is good and everything not him is evil, including us when we are separated from him. This time of choice means we get to live apart from him and taste of the evil during a season of temptation until we declare we’re ready to make our choice. And if we choose him, that means all our sins are rectified by the Son of God, so that our past mistakes become blessing as though we had been in goodness, having blessed the world, the entire time. He’s powerful. Victims get blessed when you choose God and let Jesus get his hands on your past sins. It’s not just grace at the first decision, it’s grace upon grace until the day you die. What I mean is, those who sold their souls, decidedly, to Satan 70 years before, can still cry out and be saved the moment they are done worshiping Satan and suffering. Everyone else has just as much hope in salvation as a Satan worshipper who intended to gain good things for themselves and mocking God in the process. That sin is dust in the love of God; it was consumed 70 years ago, forgotten. God’s love for you remains before him, a blazing fire of sustenance, provision, protection, life, and celebration. God loves himself that he made you. He’s so proud of himself. He chose you when he gave you breath. Are you breathing? God loves you. It is for us to find out if we could love God. Do you love flavorful food? You love God. Your sins are meaningless in this decision. Do you WANT to live in heaven where the food is fantastic and free? Then answer God, honestly, when he asks, “Do you want to go to heaven?” Everyone else is a trickster, only God is a giver unconditionally, but hope that he’s trustworthy and answer as honestly as you can, even if you answer him without any trust by saying, “If it’s possible that heaven is real, with all those good things, and only if I will never be kicked out once I get there, than yes, I would rather live in heaven than in lack.” It’s not a trick. It’s just that it cannot be undone. Once you’re in heaven, you’ll never leave, you’ll just take it with you wherever you go. If you don’t like free stuff, you won’t like heaven. God’s not going to bring someone there who only likes competition. It’s not possible in heaven to earn trinkets or praise. Heaven is an ever-flowing over-abundance of gifts, forever. There’s no lack or hunger or sadness. But there’s also no earning the things you require to live or be happy. It’s all free. And everyone has just as much heaven as everyone else. This is why your pride must die. Pride is the lie that you’re worthless until you can earn a form of worth. It’s an evil thought. Pride cannot receive free worth. Grace (free worth) is the antidote to pride, but pride has no use in a world where love reigns over a system of earning worth. If money is your chosen evidence of earned worth then you love money, whether you have a lot or a little. So, your pride can’t come to heaven, but you won’t really notice it’s gone. When you love yourself enough to hate suffering no matter the reason someone might say you don’t deserve to be honored by God, and you’re simply interested in him taking care you like a deserving child, and it’s enough reason for you that he should provide all your needs for no other reason than he made you alive, you’ll enter heaven rejoicing in being celebrated by God who loves that he made you. He didn’t make you so that you could give him stuff; he made everything and so he owns everything. But also, if God needed water or food, we would make some for himself. God is not withholding from himself so that he can make you collect things for him. Nor is God powerless to help himself. Neither did God invent a complex slave. Angels are not slaves, and none of the angels who remain with God feel like slaves. We are created to be like God in a way that angels were not; we are made to his children. He is not testing us. We have the right to be evil. But what God longs for is to be our father and be a good provider, keeping us safe and in health and walking with us and talking with us and watching us develop our interests and grow our voices in sharing our opinions. In freedom he made us. And in relationship he’ll bring us into heaven.