As the procreator of ATreasuringLove.com, I readily admit that my believing something does not make it so. In this, I acknowledge that I am not God, nor am I all-knowing. The words and ideas expressed here are my own—often made a little more readable with help from my AI Editor.
While I believe my beliefs are Biblical and true, I do not claim to speak for God. The simple truth is that I have a hard enough time speaking for myself, let alone trying to speak for someone else.
So why do I share my beliefs if I do not claim them to be universally true? Well again, let me say: I do believe them to be true—or I wouldn’t hold to them—but the reason I share them goes deeper than mere conviction.
I share them because I see you—and others—as valuable treasures. Treasures with whom I long to have an eternal, loving, Christ-centered relationship. Therefore, to the extent that I believe something has benefited me in my relationship with God, and been beneficial to the relationships I, in Christ, desire to have with others, I want to share those beliefs.
I share them not because I see others as sinners whom I need to help save, nor as misguided believers whom God has called me to straighten out. Rather, to the extent that I believe the full relationship I desire with you and others is only possible when we live in alignment with the relationship God has made available to us—through Christ with Himself, and with one another in Christ—I want to share what I’ve come to believe. Not with a focus of getting others to conform to my understanding, but to encourage all of us to keep seeking first the Kingdom of God.
For too many years, I placed my faith in my beliefs about God, when my faith should have simply been in God Himself—allowing the Holy Spirit to keep working within me. This distinction is of paramount importance, as I’ve come to realize that the only person I can truly allow God to work in is myself. That work involves not just changing behaviors I dislike, but changing the beliefs that shape them. In fact, I’ve found that only when my beliefs changed did my behaviors begin to follow. Only then did I truly start to experience the Fruit of the Spirit growing within my life in season and out.
Today, I find myself far less secure in my beliefs about God, and yet far more secure in my trusting of God—and in His love for us.
You are a treasure, and I hope the things I share on this website will encourage us to fully take hold of—and remain within—Christ’s love for us. May we seek to live our lives true to the relationship God desires to have with us through Christ, and true to the relationships He created us to have with one another—made possible in Him.
In His Grace,
Curtis Hed