While I was spending my time with God just now, reading upon the six chapters from Deuteronomy, I realized that God has set up a lot of commandments- a lot of "do"s and "don't"s in the old testaments. And most importantly, they had been repeated so many times. Example of sins such as adultery, murder and many more, they were highly detestable and God said people who did of such sins should be punished in ways like stoning to death. They were detestable in God's eyes. And God repeatedly said those commands and warned that no one should be merciful towards these sinners. In God's eyes, those were detestable.

And I asked myself these question that many might have thought, "so is God a God of "do"s and "don't"s?"

I mean, seriously, looking at what I've said and all that you might have read- might you not think so too?

So I asked God, "Are You really such a God?"

While I continued reading, I suddenly remember the leaders once told us during a meeting that whatever that has been repeated in the Bible for more than one time shows that it is very important.

They were detestable in God's eyes. They were so detestable that God wants them dead.

But if we think about it- if God really detested us, why would He send His one and only Son to die on the cross for us? If He detested us so much, why was He so willingly die on the cross to free us from our sins?

The truth is- God never detested us. The thing He so detested was what we do. Our sins. And He set all those command because He didn't want to see us sin. He didn't want us to commit those sins that were so detestable in His eyes. And for all these He had done was out of one thing- Love.

It is repeated so many times in the Bible that God hated sin. But as we were still sinners, God already loved us so much more than we could ever imagine. He could no longer bear to see His sons and daughters die, and therefore sent His one and only Son to die for us to redeem us from our sins. And because of this, with just one prayer, we were saved.

And because of grace, we were saved. Even after we were saved, we still sinned. And we all know how much God hated sins. But still, He wanted us to be saved. Why? Because He love us.

And because we understand this fact, we continued to serve God and repent every time we sin because we don't want to hurt God after all He has done- saving us even though He had detested what we do.

Is God a God of "do"s and "don't"s?

No.

He's a God of love.

For those Christians and non-Christians who didn't understand why we serve- this is for you. For those Christians who are serving because of God's love- see you at the end of the race.