by Roel Velema
I really like the aphorisms, the one-liners, by Kierkegaard. Here is one:
“To be ‘spirit’ means to be ‘I’. God needs many ‘I’s’, because He wants to be loved.”
I love this one, because for many years I believed that ‘spirit’ was vague and intangible, yet the life of God to me and erroneously thought my ego was located in soul. What a day it was when I saw that spirit means a person. I worship God in spirit (John 4:24), and the Spirit testifies to my spirit that I am a child of God (Rom. 8:16). Yes we are spirit to be expressed in soul and body. His I and my I have been joined in love as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), distinguishable, yes, but inseparable ― in two-oneness. That’s the way lovers live and that’s the only way God can be all, not as a separate I, but Christ as my I.
