Returning God's Love
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God is The Spirit of a love for us that is absolutely irrational and totally non-explicable. When we experience Christ, we do not understand why we deserve such love. Nor do we really understand the origin of this Spiritual Personality of sympathy and compassion that draws us up to Him to invigorate us. On finding love, do you really begin an intellectual discussion? Of course not, you return it. Love for God is something we cannot do perfectly but we do naturally. Spiritual Love is latent inside of us waiting to be tapped. Understanding is an obsession, an addiction, an excuse not to be. Our duty is to return a love not fully understood. Why not? After all a man does not fully understand his wife, nor any father his children, nor a mother her family. Yes, reason is wanted in love, but it is common sense and everyday reason that helps us step out on the harmonious music of God and keep the right beat. But it is moral reason, caring reason, loving reason beyond our small and selfish minds that is needed. Why? Is a tomato called upon to understand the vine, soil and sun that nourishes it? No, the tomato is called upon to glory in the grace of the vine. Must the morning glory flower understand the vine? No, it has a call to be, not to know. We are called upon to meet Christ, to know God and To Be. To love and enjoy God. Why deny our being under the excuse of not knowing? Knowing is interesting but being is what life is all about. Therefore I preach to you the changing World of God created by the Word of God that is found in scripture. And why deny the deeply personal need for God because of a shallow intellectual whim to understand what is too deep for the human mind anyway? I am called to preach to you the Word of God, the news Christ has come to earth because God is love. Many try to manipulate God for gain. No, go to God only to be with God and of God. When you do for God, do that from being united to God, part of the vine that is universal grace, sometimes feeling in yourselves the touch of glory that is being understood and used by God, receiving little but living Christ, sharing the Good News of the Gospel which is, there is a God. We know this because Christ has come. His love reaches out towards us today and forever. Our duty is not to understand it, but to return it. |
