Thursday, January 27, 2011

Edwards tentang mengasihi Allah

Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections.
“… the exercises of true and holy love in the saints arise in another way. They do not first see that God loves them, and then see that He is lovely, but they first see that God is lovely, and that Christ is excellent and glorious, and their hearts are first captivated with this view, and the exercises of their love are wont from time to time to begin here, and to raise primarily from these views; and then, consequentially, they see God’s love, and great favour to them. The saint’s affections begin with God; and self-love has a hand in these affections consequentially and secondarily only.
On the contrary, false affections begin with self, and an acknowledgement of an excellency in God, and an affectedness with it, is only consequential and dependent” (p. 172).

Cinta sejati pada Allah tak dimulai dari kesadaran bahwa IA mencintai kita lebih dulu, baru kemudian kita melihat bahwa IA ternyata mahakasih, mahamulia, dan mahaindah. Justru sebaliknya, cinta sejati pada Allah dimulai dari pertama-tama menyadari bahwa IA mahakasih, mahamulia, dan mahaindah pada diriNya sendiri, baru kemudian kita menyadari bahwa Ia ternyata mencintai, memerhatikan, dan bermurahhati pada kita.

Thesis Edwards adalah kasih spiritual para saleh pada Allah, as opposed to the one that is natural, sebenarnya lahir atau berasal dari kebesaran Allah sendiri.

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