Stupendous+Sydney

Christ has shown the greatest love the world will ever know. Yet we as humans often disregard that tremendous gift, and choose who deserves love and who does not. We must remember that love that has been forgotten. We must love one another as we love ourselves. We must bring back the value of life. We need to truly love.



For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, To die for the sins of man. To pay a debt he did not owe, Because we owed a debt we could not pay. And he uttered not a word in his defense. This is love.

We are so limited. We breathe an atmosphere of sorrow, Evil things have not been purged away Bringing about slavery, under which a people have been willing to remain.

= What else do you love? = = Who else do you think about? = = Other than yourself? =

For living is so dear. Life is God’s most precious gift, and no principal, however glorious, Can justify the taking of it. People //know// what matters, but they do not choose it. They come to feel loss so deeply that they question the very merit of living at all. Brothers and sisters, this should not be so.

There’s no such thing as perfect people. No such thing as a perfect life. So, Why do you not treat others as you wish to be treated? We have found difficulty obtaining good and breaking bad habits, Hurting others as we are hurting. Who killed the innocent men women and children’s spirits? After all, it was you and me. Folks, nothing is good enough for them. You give someone the moon, they ask for the universe. People just a’int the way they used to be.

They’re so obsessed With million dollar salaries, Downsizing their thighs in three moves. When there are still many people, so weary and lost. It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.

But against such a majority we cannot affect this by force. The tide rises, the tide falls, Yet nothing is changing. Why isn’t anything changing?

Most persons do not see the sun, Even if it hits them between the eyes. But. Those rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate him From the heat of his own fire. Love not names and customs.

It moves for love. It stands before it in awe.
Be alive and not just living. Turn the world upside down, Find the love they say just can’t be found. Move towards hope, that’s what is beautiful.

Now I give you another command: Love one another, as I, Christ, have loved you. No matter what you say, or what you do, If you have not love, you have nothing. So let hope rise, And darkness tremble, That every eye would see The love they are missing.

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