God is love. This is the best news. We see God's gracious and abounding love for the world, we see him loving the good and evil alike. Not that we are lovely or inherently lovable but that he has set his love upon us. He has decided to, and we see in Christ and the cross the extreme nature of this love - that he would be the redeeming God, but more than that, he has us call him Father, having made us His children.
Why do we love? It is our nature to, and completely unnatural for us not to, because we are made in his image and he is love. Can we say in our distress, "Why don't you love me?" You bet we can. Holding onto our little store of love, jealousy guarding it and not letting any out, just in case we may run out.
But this is not how love works, His love is limitless and freely fills us constantly, as we love freely. Are we whole and right, blameless in His sight through Christ? Is this our own doing, or has it come as a gift? And is this a forever state of being? Then we are free to love. |
