How many of us could bear loving for ever and ever and being rejected? That's what He does.
I've rejected God myself, and denied Him before people, why wouldn't he do the same to me? He's got more than reasons to do so, but I guess He won't, just because He is God.
"But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us." Romans 5:8
It intrigues me though that He loves us even though we are ugly and sinful, and He tells us to love Him before all things and to love our neighbor as ourselves, but at the end of the day we can barely express love to Him, a perfect being, wonderful and merciful. How would we be able to love ourselves and love our neighbors if we don't even like them. How can we love someone that we barely know if we can't even love who created us and sent His own son to die on a cross for us?
It's easy to show love when everything is perfect, and that applies to human relationships and to our relationship with God. It's easy to love Him when He does everything for us and gives us everything. But hey, look at Job's story, would we be able to handle it?
Couples getting together when they are young and pretty and I should say when they ARE in love, five minutes later the "love" is gone, and then they just divorce. Are we going to keep loving our husbands once they grow old and chubby and start losing hair? Are we going to love them as much when money fails to come into the bank account?
Once life kicks in and things are not as pretty and perfect as they should be are we still going to be able to love our children? How about when you find out one of your children is a drug addict? Or find out that your wife can't have children? Or see that your neighbor has a bigger car and a prettier wife and got the job position you were seeking, are you still going to be as kind and helpful towards your neighbor?
I don't know much about true love but I believe that love it must be something that we learn, and not just a momentous feeling. We probably learn and decide to love. "I decide to love my neighbor" "I decide to accept Jesus in my heart and love Him". Shouldn't they be the same decision? Shouldn't they be consequences of each other?
I know it's easy to decide to love, but how about expressing love and showing love? Or maybe out of true love we would just love spontaneously and not need to force it. That's probably what God does. God is love. He IS true love. He is made of love. He acts out of love, His will is planned because of love. He teaches because He loves us, He punishes, and He speaks to us because He is just a loving being and that's wonderful.
I'm pretty sure true love is not what they show on TV nor on those romantic movies and songs where everything seems so nice.
I just wonder how could it be to understand and touch true love. It is probably amazing, it's probably overwhelming and worm. God's heart must be a swimming pool of love, that we can just jump in and feel free, I feel like getting my swimming suit and asking God to allow me to swim in His heart. Why not?
I love Him and I love you.
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