Love and Innocence.

Why are children so innocent?
We see the things they do, such as a little boy falling and hurting his knee and crying out for his mother, or a little girl running outside in the sun picking flowers and coming home and handing them to her father as a gift. Older people look at this and say “Oh, that's just adorable.” But when that child grows a bit older, it is viewed as immature and socially unacceptable because that child hasn't “grown” and “hasn't learned the harsh pains of the world”.

It's the corruptiveness of the everyday things we face that pervert who we are. Most people see the word “perverted” as having to do with sexual comments and gestures. They see that the word “purity” means remaining sexually unactive. But really ,anything perverse is something that corrupts innocence and purity. We lose child-like innocence through being corrupted by knowledge, which can be both good and bad. Children are considered naïve and oblivious because they haven't been corrupted by the knowledge of the real world yet. They don't understand depression and stress. They live in a world full of color, imagination, and most of all, beauty... because true purity is beautiful.

Purity is restored through the love of God and his presence.

God didn't create out bodies to carry depression and stress. He didn't create us to be corrupted. The innocence we all once obtained and lost is restored through his presence.
Why does love feel good and pain hurt?
Because he created us for love- most of all for his love, which is the first love. If you haven't experienced the love of God, then you have no revelation of love whatsoever. And so many people don't have a true revelation of the love of God yet. He didn't create us to be hurt, and he doesn't hurt us because of how much he loves us. He didn't create us to carry the burden of depression- that is what we hand over to him.
We so often hear that “the blood of Jesus washed our sins away and made us white as snow.” What does this even mean? The white as snow represents purity and cleanliness. He came and washed away our sins, and mistakes- the spots that are dirty and corrupted in our hearts and minds are renewed; washed clean and spotless. And we are always welcome into his presence to come for more of him.
The beauty of being spiritually pure is love.
The beauty we see in him and his creation is love.
The appreciation of the life he gave us is love...
and if you've ever doubted love, look at the cross... and you will never forget what love looks like.

The look in his eyes as he looks down on you from above is the true definition of love.