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| The love languages doctrine is straight from the pit of hell. It tells people that they can feel unloved even if someone is working 50+ to feed them, clothe them, and house them; even if someone sits and has conversations with them deep into the night; even if someone tells them they love them and gives them a hug every day for the rest of their lives. It doesn't matter because their love language is gifts and that person never gave them a gift. And they say God made them this way?
How self-centered is that??
The Bible says love is patient, kind, trusting, forgiving, and truthful. Above all it lays its life down for those it loves. It doesn't ask--no demand--to be loved a specific way. It understands and accepts the manifestations of love from others in whatever form they appear. Psychobabble, especially psychobabble that flip flops what scripture teaches, has no place in a Christian's life. | | |
| "O you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if you knew how pleasing to God is suffering, and how much it helps in acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to bear the Cross of the Lord." St. John of the Cross in The Dark Night of The Soul | | |
| "There is but one true devotion, and there are many that are false and deceitful. Hence, if you cannot distinguish that which is true, you may easily deceive and distract yourself in following one that is offensive and superstitious."
"...so everyone paints devotion according to his own love and fancy. The man who is addicted to fasting thinks himself very devout if he fasts, though his heart be at the same time filled with rancor. He scruples to moisten his tongue with wine, or even with water, becasue of his sobriety, but he makes no difficulty of drinking deep of his neighbor's blood by detraction and calumny. Another considers himself devout because he recites daily a multiplicity of prayers, althought immediately afterward he utters the most disagreeable, arrogant, and injurious word in his home and among his neighbors. Another cheerfully draws an alms out of his purse to give to the poor, but he cannot draw meekenss out of his heart to forgive his enemies. Another readily forgives his enemies, but he never satisfies his creditors except when compelled by the sharp power of the law. All these are commonly esteemed devout, while in reality they are by no means so."
"...many persons by covering themselves with certain external actions...make the world believe that they are truly devout, whereas they are in truth nothing but images and phantoms of devotion." St. Francis de Sales in Introduction to the Devout Life | | |
| "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48
"Jesus said unto him, 'If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow Me.'" Matthew 19:21
Many people who call themselves Christians today walk away from the command above just like the young ruler and continue to name His name.
Some have heard Him speak and have sold out.
But how many think that selling out is following Him and go merrily on their way? They've only shed the things that kept them from following. | | |
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