Love of God or fear of punishment?

Beloved brothers in Christ, there is unfounded concern in Christians, a fear or fear that some post apocalyptic prophets are sowing, who very loosely prophesy serious natural disasters, in various parts or regions of the planet, Others who dream or are transported to visit hell, others who carry generational curses with them, and still others who, because they do not follow certain Old Testament laws, accuse the sheep of the flock they care for being under a curse, tormenting or manipulating them, in search of of personal interests.

All this environment of spiritual harassment makes many Christians see a God, as if he wanted to win souls for his kingdom, submitting his servants out of fear, out of fear of hellish punishment, indeed, as if it were blackmail " or you are with me, but look what will happen to you ”and I do not believe that God handles himself that way, nor that his shepherds win souls out of fear and not out of love.

The doctrine that Jesus Christ left us was and still is of LOVE, LOVE FOR THE FATHER MAINLY AND LOVE FOR THE NEIGHBOR. He only felt sorry for those who, due to various circumstances, did not follow him. But he never threatened them, with infernal punishments, because in fact he who is not with God is supposed to be on the other side and certainly nothing good will be expected when a neighbor is taken away by the devil. In the free will that God has given to each person, he cannot force him, much less threaten him.

All Christian doctrine is based on love, love even the sacrifice of life for faith in our Savior, this is how the first Christians lived it in their own flesh, that their love for Jesus Christ was so great that they were not afraid of losing their lives amid torture and death to which more cruel. Love so great that they still asked forgiveness for their executioners.

It is that love that should guide us to meet our Creator, not the fear of fatalities, nor the fear of hellfire. Nor to the horrifying faces of the infernal demons, by acting like this we would be acting like children, without formed criteria, where only fear governs our lives. Where it seems that we have not understood the true doctrine of Jesus Christ. Where we continue with medieval religiosities, then we pay more attention to false prophets with false doctrines, who are only making fortunes with the word of God and the ignorance of many Christians. Well says the Word of God "My people perish for lack of knowledge."

No, my brothers, the true Christian, approach Jesus Christ out of love, out of pure and sincere and uninterested love.

A marriage between female and male is established by ties of love that have been born between them and in that great love, they will free all kinds of difficulties, but in that love, they will get ahead.

It is good to remember what the Holy Scriptures say in Ephesians chapter 3, 14-21: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, so that he may give you , according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man by his Spirit; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, so that, rooted and grounded in love, you may be fully capable of understanding with all the saints what is the breadth, length, depth and height, and of knowing love of Christ, who exceeds all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

And to the One who is able to do all things much more abundantly than we ask or understand, according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all ages, for ever and ever. .

In short, I think it would be very good if those who lead or have the responsibility of guiding the people of God in our congregations could better determine the differences that exist between fear and fear, because the Word of God clearly establishes them, not All those who begin to receive the Word in a temple, already have solid and well-established knowledge, and if to that we add this mismanagement of fear and fear, then we would achieve congregations with many limitations of healthy, full understanding of the Bible.

That, as I said before, those who come to Christ do so out of love, aware that we have to change many things in our behavior, in our lives, that we have to try to perfect ourselves every day, to come closer to resembling him even slightly, and May we fight and take care of our salvation with fear and trembling, in a reverent way, not out of fear, not because of those things that those who sometimes act motivated and guided by other interests plant in our minds, those who do not have fear or fear.

That the church that we continue to promote here on earth, even in the difficult times we live in, is not a church that is intimidated, that lives in fear, that has, yes, fear of God, and that acts accordingly, but that is not a fearful church, a church full of bad things that others sow, but a strong church, that analyzes, that knows the Word of God and that can discern about what happens around it, that is not blind for following its earthly leaders if not that he has a good vision so that he can trust only what Jesus said, a church that is sure that when we cry out to God, and ask him in his will, and in obedience, He listens to us.

May we find peace, as Jesus told us in John 14:27, the peace that He left us, the peace that He gave us, not as the world gives so that our hearts are not troubled, so that we are not afraid.

May the Lord help us in this understanding and we can achieve it in his Love that is perfect. God bless you.