Monday, December 3, 2007

See, Do, Get in the Three Domains

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LIVING UNDER THE LAW

What we see:
Control
Do’s and don’ts
Right and wrong
Fear
Fairness
Coercion
Good
Justice
Doubt
Powerlessness
Helplessness

Under the law this is what we do:
Obey
Disobey
Think inside the box
Evade
Agree
Disagree
Comply

These are the results we get under the law:
Rewards
Punishment
Dissatisfaction
Uncertainty
Incompleteness
Error
Pain or gain
We survive
Success
Failure
Inaccuracy
Agreement
Compliance


THE CONSEQUENCES OF LIVING WITH GREAT LOVE

What we see:
Hope
Rest
Principles
Truth
The best way
Power
Ethics
Values

When we love, this is what we do:
Be kind
Be gentle
Be humble
Be courteous
We care
Never think evil
Give
Rejoice with the truth
Teach
We honor
Persuade
Accept
Discipline
Live with integrity
Learn

These are the results we get when we love:
Lasting relationships
Stability
Best
Legacy
Unity in diversity
Honor
Forgiveness
Significance
Consistency
Patience
Gain knowledge
Good temper
Unselfishness
Guilelessness

THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING FREE AGAIN

What we see:
Release
Restoration
Reconciliation
Liberty

What we do when we choose to be powerful and free:
Natural and normal principle-centered behavior

What we get when we feel free again is:
We have become what God wants us to be--- like him.
What we want to become.
What we see, do, and get is now one.
Total alignment with correct principles
True freedom

1 CORINTHIANS 13: “A PARADIGM OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE”

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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