What exactly is stopping us?

 

One of the mail reasons we are here upon this earth is to learn and love your neighbor. 

The greatest problem most people have is that they do not ever come to understand that it is necessary to get out of your own self to really Love as God intended! 

What exactly is stopping us? 
First we need to get our eyes off ourselves...  
A person who only sees self is forever doomed to an Eternity of Total Isolation...  So how can we say we love if we do not ever recognize anyone else?  
The beginning of all truth and knowledge is to come to Seek The Lord God in your life! 

Unless you can come to understand how much Love and concern the Lord Has for us  - you will never come to truly know Him!

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THE SILENCE OF THE SON

 

Luke 22:63-64 

"And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?"

Here is the account of God's own creation mocking and insulting His Son without Him intervening. The pain that this must have caused the Father defies description.

Those who struck Jesus and told Him to prophesy who it was that struck Him, must have taken Jesus' silence as proof that He was not who He claimed to be.

The natural mind could not conceive that Almighty God would take this kind of abuse from His creation. But this was the plan of God.

Isaiah prophesied that, as a lamb before its shearers is dumb (Isa. 53:7), so Jesus would not open His mouth. Isaiah also mentioned that Jesus "was taken from prison and from judgment" referring to the fact that He was not given a fair trial (Isa. 53:8). 

Isaiah went on to prophesy in Isaiah 53:9 that
 Jesus would make "his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death." 

This was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified between two thieves and buried in a rich man's tomb.