It's not about sin, it's about Christ.
It's not about law, it's about Christ.
It's not about morality, it's about Christ.
It's not about works, it's about Christ.
It's not about denominations, it's about Christ.
Christ is Gorgeous, Love, Beauty unending.
Christ is Righteousness, Justice, King, unending.
Against loving Christ, there is no sin.
Against loving Christ, there is no law.
Against loving Christ, there is no morality.
Against loving Christ, there is no work.
Against loving Christ, there is no denomination.
He disregarded sin on the Cross.
He instead looked at how Happy He was. [1]
He thus endured the "race" of sin, law, morality, [2]
By looking at Doctrine: the Word looked at the Word
and saw All was Good.
So He rested Happy on the Cross.
So we can rest Happy looking at Him. [1]
Because it isn't about how bad we are, it's about Christ.
Because it isn't about how rough life is, it's about Christ.
Because it isn't about being good or doing good, it's about Christ.
What wife prides herself on not sinning,
What wife prides herself on not disobeying,
What wife prides herself on being moral,
What wife prides herself on her works,
if she's so raptly loving her husband,
she's too busy to even think about such things?
Against such a wife's love, there is no power.
Against such a wife's love, Satan makes no inroads.
Against such a wife's love, there is no violation.
Against such a wife's love, there IS Christ:
Pressing close to her,
holding her against Him, tightly,
Loving her, protecting her, caressing her,
Drinking in her every thought,
Because her thoughts have become like His,
and He loves His Own Wife, His Own Soul.
Against such thoughts, no human effort, ugliness or limitation
Stands a chance of success. They are disregarded.
No amount of works can even compare to the beauty of such thoughts.
No human handicap can tarnish her.
Against such a wife's thoughts, there IS Satan.
He who was the 1st wife, DayStar.
He who was the head of the angels,
"husband" to them, even,
so to portray his Husband, Christ.
Whom he divorced, becoming "Satan", adversary.
The "woman scorned", he sees himself rejected unfairly by the Son.
Why, all the angels loved him!
He should rule!
So he seeks the new wife's love,
just as he did with Eve;
Seductively pressing close to her,
To gain her affection.
Attracted to her,
promising anything to get her,
obsessed with having her,
Drinking in her every notice.
Because her thoughts are NOT like his,
and he who 'loves' another man's wife,
Loves his own power:
To get back at Christ! Over Whom
Satan is Jealous, Vindictive.
Because it's not about us, it's about Christ.
No happy wife would have it be any other way.
No Decree of the Father would let it be any other way.
Because, to God, it's about Christ.
So, if it's not about Christ, then it's about "nothing":
a stupid play, full of sound and kaleidoscopes,
Signifying nothing.
What's it about, to me?
Is it about what I see?
Is it about what others see?
Is it about my ugliness?
Is it about someone else's ugliness?
Is it about my beauty?
Is it about someone else's beauty?
Is it about an easy life?
Is it about a rough, ascetic life?
Is it about problems, prol-itics, food, looks, feelings?
What's it about, to me?
It's about Christ.
"Living, Christ! Dying, Profit!" [3]
Notes:
[1] Heb 12:2
[2] Heb 12:1 in Greek, compared to Heb 12:2 in Greek; both verses liken the spiritual life to an Olympic-type marathon endurance race; verse 2 shows how the Lord won it, so we can look at HIM and likewise be happy, disregarding/despising whatever "shame" (problems, sin, evil, etc) besets us."Rest" ties to "sabbath"; Heb4 and Gen1. Matt 4 on Him resting in Doctrine, and also Psalms/Proverbs with that metaphor, the idea of resting on His Promises, and the "joy" that results (i.e., "happy is the man who waits upon the Lord" verse).
[3] Phillipians 1:21, corrected translation (verse has no verbs, to convey shouting)