Have we ever considered how much God loves us? I mean, we all know that God loves us, but have we ever thought about how much?
Have you ever had the feeling of loving someone so much, wanting to be with that person so much, and yet not being able to? Feeling like that person doesn't love you? Pain, anguish, disappointment, sorrow, whatever you choose to describe it as.
Take that feeling, multiply it a thousand times for good measure, and another few billion times for every person on this earth, and that is somewhat what God must feel. Have we ever thought about how much we disappoint him? How day in, day out, we fail to put Him in His rightful place in our lives. How we would chase after foolish pleasures when He is simply waiting there. How we burn his hurt so deeply every time we sin, unwillingly or willingly. Day after day thousands and millions of people curse Him, ignore Him, use His name in vain, turn Him away, just like our forefathers did to Jesus.
And yet amazingly, God has never stopped loving us. Despite the grief and pain we have caused Him, He continues to love us, with a love that is so selfless, so pure. That is agape love, the highest form of love, the self-sacrificial, all-conquering love that all of us struggle to show. A love that cares not about itself, but only about the other person. And the greatest expression of God's love? He sent His Son to die for us, just so that He could be with us. That is what prompted John to write, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10.
In the light of such a love, we ought to be ashamed at the way we are living. We need to learn, by God's help, how to love others with that same kind of love that He loves us- selfless, agape. And more importantly, we need to learn how to love Him.
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." Deut 6:5
Have you ever had the feeling of loving someone so much, wanting to be with that person so much, and yet not being able to? Feeling like that person doesn't love you? Pain, anguish, disappointment, sorrow, whatever you choose to describe it as.
Take that feeling, multiply it a thousand times for good measure, and another few billion times for every person on this earth, and that is somewhat what God must feel. Have we ever thought about how much we disappoint him? How day in, day out, we fail to put Him in His rightful place in our lives. How we would chase after foolish pleasures when He is simply waiting there. How we burn his hurt so deeply every time we sin, unwillingly or willingly. Day after day thousands and millions of people curse Him, ignore Him, use His name in vain, turn Him away, just like our forefathers did to Jesus.
And yet amazingly, God has never stopped loving us. Despite the grief and pain we have caused Him, He continues to love us, with a love that is so selfless, so pure. That is agape love, the highest form of love, the self-sacrificial, all-conquering love that all of us struggle to show. A love that cares not about itself, but only about the other person. And the greatest expression of God's love? He sent His Son to die for us, just so that He could be with us. That is what prompted John to write, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10.
In the light of such a love, we ought to be ashamed at the way we are living. We need to learn, by God's help, how to love others with that same kind of love that He loves us- selfless, agape. And more importantly, we need to learn how to love Him.
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." Deut 6:5
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