The Love of God

   I sometimes struggle with why God does the things He does.  Why did he create a world that doesn’t seem to care for Him?  Why does He continue its’ existence?  Why did He send His only Son to save a people who rejected Him, abandoned Him and crucified Him?  Why does He continue to love those people and bless them in so many ways?

  The answer is love.  Not love as we use it in our world today.  We claim to love everything from ice-cream to our new car.  We talk so much of love that I wonder if we haven’t lost the meaning of the word.  Loving isn’t the same as liking; love is of God and is miraculous whenever it occurs.  True love is a mystery that can only be found with God.

   It doesn’t matter whether we love Him or hate Him, God’s love for us continues endlessly.  The sun shines on the good and the bad equally.  He gives us the opportunity to turn to Him and accept His love throughout our lives and is joyful with the death-bed acceptance that saves a sinner from Hell.  Jesus said, "But many that are first will be last,and the last first." (Matt 19:30).  Whether we have been Christian for our entire life or turned to Him late in life, we are equally loved.

   The love of God can’t be described; it is beyond the words and emotions we have available to us.  It is grander than the universe and all within it.  His love is more intense than the fires of Hell.  The greatest love known to mankind pales in comparison to His love for us.

   It’s not possible to fully understand God’s love in this life.  We can only accept that it is beyond all we have ever known.  We talk of love, we sing of love, we all desire love but we don’t truly know love without God.  He is love; a love that never ends and is given freely for the asking.

Father your love is unending.

You give it to us freely and generously.

May we live our lives so as to honor that love.

Amen