Spiritual Life Defined by Its Centre

With Jesus it was not so. We know that Jesus have brought a message that spoke to our deepest longings of the human heart to become not simply conformed to a religious subculture but transformed into "new creatures." Many of us focusing on the boundaries, but Jesus focused on the centre, the centre of our heart - the heart of spiritual life.

When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus response simply "Love God, love people." He named a fundametally different way of identifying who are the children of God. Do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to Him?

Jesus early followers understood this cleary. The apostle Paul wrote to the church at the Corith about the significance of having many spiritual "markers" but lacking the centre.

"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy like a clanging cymbal. And if I have the prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."

Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.