Love, Accusation, Covid

God is love. God isn’t a person though we do believe there was a moment when God incarnated himself into the world in Jesus. But, God isn’t a person. He is love. (1John 4:18) Love is a spirit; energy. And love is relentless affection.

Therefore, one could say that God is the name we attach to that energy of relentless affection. It’s approaching us, around us, and with us all the time. It’s also the energy that motivates us to approach others in relentless affection, and the more we participate in this activity the more there is!

In other words, God is that which loves us, motivates us to love others, and lives in all that love.

Inversely, we can think of satan being a type of anti-love. (Though, I don’t really think of Satan as the inverse of God. But we won’t get into all of that at this moment.) The word, satan, comes from the Hebrew word, ha-satan. It means accuser.

Therefore, one could say that satan is the name we attach to that energy of accusation. It’s approaching us, around us, and with us all the time. It’s also the energy that motivates us to accuse others, and the more we participate in this activity, the more there is!

In other words, satan accuses us, motivates us to accuse others, and lives in all that accusation.

This begins to explain how good people can be caught up in the satanic. And I’m not talking about cutting heads off of chickens, druid worship, dungeons and dragons, or arguing about the pagan influence of celebrating Easter around the Spring equinox. I’m speaking of something I think is much more serious and sinister, that is, the satanic as accusation. The more we accuse the more its stirred up. And the more its stirred up the more we accuse. If the satanic is stirred up during each instance of blaming, scapegoating, and accusing, how much was stirred up this week? In the media? In politics? In the meetings you attended? In your own heart?

I think we should be cautious with Covid-19. We should take precautions and do what we need to do to keep ourselves healthy. But Covid-19 is not going to wipe out humanity. The thing that has the power to wipe out humanity is accusation.

May all the Christians ruthlessly eliminate their preoccupation with accusation.

May the world know we are Christian by our love. (John 13:35)