About Character

I have been invited to share the message at the Church in Hot Springs in a week. 

And while thinking of what to say, I wrote this down. Its partially incomplete, but I think the line of thought will be appreciated by whomever reads this.

Hope you can follow my thinking.

Enjoy

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What makes entertainment such a drawing point? More specifically, what about movies, games, TV shows and suchlike do we find so attractive? What component is essential in making interesting entertainment?

What do you think it might be?

• Maybe a lot of action, or it has to be
• funny or maybe it has to have the
• newest advancements in computer graphics,
• a thrilling plot, with suspenseful scenes
• or even epic music

But let me propose a basic, fundamental part of what makes them such an attractive force.

We would all agree that, you need, characters. Specific personalities that resonate with a part of you.

What makes religion such an important part of society and life?

Aside from the rewards of afterlife.

What would be the prime factor in following a religion, or what is common denominator about each of them?

That makes religion or even the reasoning behind a stance of no religion, each has something in common.

Similar to why we are so enraptured with entertainment: It would be the quality or the character of the God, gods, or person one follows.

The quality of character, weather its the peaceful composer of a chrishna, or the honor of Muhammad, everyone follows, including the proposed atheist, who would be a follower of his own heart or the teaching of other men. We all put the character of some other being on a pedestal, and in one way or another we aim to form ours similarly.

I am not a Buddhist, and atheist, or a Muslim, I am not even what society would call a christian.

Though I am not free from that title, I am a follower of the one true God, explicitly brought out through scripture, nature and the life of Christ.

The God of the bible, has a character. A character that I believe and see in my life, is perfect.

Now about who God is in his quality of being. One would attribute many things to him, for instance, he is wonderful, he is powerful, he is many things.

But there is one thing that is expressly brought out in the Bible that overall defines and fulfills the explaination of who God IS at his core. And the word is one that, undoubably we have all pondered the meaning of.

That is LOVE.

I think I would be hardpressed to find an honest individual who would say that they have not been curious about what this feeling, this indwelling compulsion for the affection and attention of others is. Or what it might mean to Love.

And I say to you with %100 confidence that ever person, old or young has the capacety to give and recieve this true love.

Because, ingrained in ourselves is a purpose in life, this ingrained purpose is well known by the writers in hollywood and the designers of media today. Its the desire to have love in our lives, and when its evident we don't and are not fulfilled in this area because so many of us seek fulfillment in other things, modernly its been in supplied through media but its been given in many forms through time.

Now God has been expressly labeled as the ideal and perfect form of Love.

for "God is Love"

He is the only being that possess the extreme title of Love in its purest and truest sense, and thus said, is the only place were love can be derived.

That is why I am a Christ follower, in every work, in every creation and destruction from his hand, with patience, one can see the motive of self-sacrificing Love behind it.

I hope today, that I can think about what in, or around me is love inspired.

And I hope you do to.

Blessings.