God is Love . That is His very nature.
He looks at us love-starved and seeks to fill us because only He can. We were
all made from love with a key-way whose only key is love and no other key can
fit.
He desires
mercy. He wants to love us irrespective of who
we are. Every mother looks at her child and is proud. No one sees a child as
the mother does. How then can we describe this one that has called us to love
us. What can we give Him that He does not already have but ourselves. Surrendering to Him does not increase Him
but makes us whole and that is what He seeks. When He looks at you, He does
not see you like others do. Through His loving eyes, your faults and weaknesses
grow strangely dim. He is LOVE that called us. He does not seek what we have but who we are.
He never had
a reputation. Reclining with sinners without caring about what would be said of
Him. While man saw their sins, He saw their souls.
He desires
mercy not judgement, never giving us what we deserve as we all deserve death.
Woe to those that preach works, classifying the love of the master with scales
not even worthy. Who can stand before the Lord? Who can defend rights to the
love of God? Can't we see He does not need us to be perfect but calls us to be.
Words can
never fully describe this love so indescribable. This uneven relationship between righteous God and righteous
man. He calls us righteous not
because of what we've done but what He
has.
He wants the
dead raised into life with Him because there
is no other way. Seeing righteousness in our sinful nature makes it all sin as
doing all right does not make for righteousness. Why
won't we accept a saviour as we cannot do it all.
For what He
has done, He expects no reward from us but all He desires from us, He has given
to us - His life that in Him, we may live. As oxygen is the only gas we can breathe, He is the only life
we can live. He has become
all things to all people, a sheep so we would never be one (i.e. molested,
pushed around, led to slaughter), sin so we can be righteous, hope so we could look to Him.
Every other
door is a dead end as He is the only way.
Who then are
you to call unclean what He has made clean, to call unrighteous you who He has made righteous even by
becoming sin in the process.
He says the you there because most of
the time, we condemn ourselves more than the devil even has to as we even
inspire him, doing it in ways he would never have.
"All we can do is all we can do but all
we can do is enough". -
All we can
do is accept this love that has been given so generously, sold with the
currency of faith not works.
All I'm
saying is - God loves you. He not just loves you but He's in love with you and
it's not based on you and there is nothing you can do to take it away. He has
always loved you and won't stop now.
The ones
that condemn you, do they have nail prints in their hands and love in their
eyes? All this is but a fragment of God's love, it can never be fully explained
or understood only experienced and accepted.
He said that
He was consumed by the zeal of His father's house but He was driven by His love
for us. He did all He could and says if there's more He would. It's not about
the pain of the cross but the weight of His love for us. Again, He did not come
to make an impact that will outlive Him but because He saw you and me in hell.
Hell is simply being separated from God. It's not about the fire that burns
without but the fire that burns within. How can you truly know God's love and
fall away?
It's not
just about speaking mysteries that will get people thinking or give them a
shiver in their bones. If they do not know the one that has called them to love
them, what use is it?
The cry of
the church is not for more prayers / grace. It's not for more growth/funds but
the cry of love. How would the very thing that bound us be so much in lack.
Know this:
God loves you.
Reference:
Matthew 9
