Monday musings (part II)

Following on from "Monday musings..." a few weeks ago...

I thought I couldn't write about hope without writing about it's friends love and faith

(1 Corinthians 13:13...you know it...)

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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

Whether we like it or not, we focus our lives on love.

Some love money.

Or power.

Or themselves.

Or others.

It's true that it's a hunger.

We long for it.

We need it.

We focus on it.

It's the highest cause in all humanity.

It's out universal commonality.

It's out most divine need.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with it.

It's wonderful, isn't it?

But it's what we love that causes issues.

I think what we miss is that love isn't a trivial human thought.

It's a spiritual force.

A choice.

And when we love truly,

honestly,

selflessly,

like Jesus

love breaks bonds of brokeness and oppression.

Love is the motivation of justice.

The power behind hope.

The fuel of forgiveness.

I'm human.

And I do find it hard sometimes to understand why Jesus loves me so much.

But it's not because I'm loveable.

I'm not.

It's because I am His, and He is love.

He can't help to love me.

That's encouraging.

I've heard it said that to love someone else is to see the face of God.

I guess it's true, when you think about it.

To love someone else, through the faults of being human, (because, lets be honest, none of us are worthy...)

really is seeing the face of God.

He loves us through our faults,

our brokeness,

our human-ness.

His love seeks no other agenda.

It's unconditional.

It doesn't want payback.

And in spite of all the madness of life, it wins.