Apply Radical Truths: A Message To All Religious People From U2

To all legalistic religious people out there who cannot stand on broken people to have their second chance in life to be good and better again, here is my message.

These religious people are proud of their self-righteousness that they can just totally discredit and reject broken people. They didn't realize that God is the God of the broken and He wants to fix them. God's love is for all. I am not sharing this out of angst but I just want to get my message across. I have been long time living in freedom and love. I am sharing this even out of concern and love. I am telling all of those people who failed in the past and who found it so hard to rise up again because of the people who still criticize and oppose them, well, this song is an inspiration. Don't allow anyone hinder you in your comeback. Don't allow anyone or anything not to pursue the new path God has given you.

I am telling this to the legalistic religious people that maybe the reason you cannot give love to the used-to-be-broken is because after all, you yourself need is love, and I want to tell you, I am not angry at you.

I love you.

It is just my prayer that your heart maybe opened. Love is all we need. So, here's the message and the song "ONE" by U2 dedicated to all legalistic religious people who despises other people who are not in the level of their "righteousness".

The questions in the first three stanzas:

Is it getting better/

Or do you feel the same?

Will it make easier on you now?

You got someone to blame

Does it get better when we hate one another? Does it get better when we despise other people? Does the same feeling of indifference, pride and animosity are in our hearts? Will it it make easier on you now since you got someone to blame, and the more you feel so high in your own goodness? Will it make easier on you now because you can blame someone? If blaming me will make you feel good, then so be it, I gladly accept it.

And yet in one way or the other in our teachings and messages, we can say that "God is love?"

You say...

One love

One life

When it's one need

In the night

One love

We get to share it

Leaves you baby if you

Don't care for it

"One love, one life," we can say, but we don't realize that we ought not just to speak about it, but we need to share it. Love will leave you if you don't really share it. Love will leave when all we have is judgment based in hate and bitterness .

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's...

Yes, I admit, broken people like us who are now rising up has been a disappointment in one way or another to religious people. The truth of the matter is, even our rising up is a disappointment to some. They are disappointed in the thinking that we can no longer rise up, and that we can no longer have a thriving, happy and successful life. This gives a bad taste in someone's mouth, and their response is judgement and hate, and not love. Some of these people thought that it cannot be that we flourish in life since we failed in the past. Well, let me tell you our answer,

Too late

Tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

One...

Yes, my answer about your criticisms and judgment - IT'S TOO LATE NOW. I am already a changed man. I was freed by love and grace. I have already taken lots of steps in all ups and down in this journey, and your judgment cannot stop me now. It's too late, God has already raised me up, and I will not waste this grace by stopping when you drag my past out into the light. I will not even hate or be indifferent to you. It is your shot, but this is my shot too. The shot of love and grace. I can no longer go back to the past. I have a wonderful present and future. It's too late now. I have already risen up, and now I am carrying others and even you in love.

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head

There is none righteous, no not one. Those words are not just for salvation but for restoration. Until now, however zealous you are in your religion, still there is none righteous, no not one. When we are driven by law, we act as if we are the one to judge like God. As if we think we can raise the dead, or even play Jesus when in contrary, Jesus came to this world not to condemn the world.

So, my question,

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now it's all I got

We're one

But we're not the same

Well we

Hurt each other

Then we do it again

Is it too much to ask for understanding and grace, knowing that grace is free to give? Didn't we know that though we may have differences, but we are just one. Will we keep on hurting each other with our prejudices?

So let me declare-

You say

Love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

Love is not confined in a building or any structure. Love must not be restricted by law or religion. Love is the higher law for love is the fulfillment of the law. Love is all we need.

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I can't be holding on

To what you got

When all you got is hurt

Religion will ask you to enter, but will make you crawl by its prejudices and law. I can't be holding on to this kind of life. This kind of religion that exalts the law, the organization, and a man eventually results to bickering, hating and judging each other. I can no longer hold on to this when all we do is hurt. There is freedom in love.

Let this be my voice and my life.