Some Random Sunday Morning Thoughts about God and Love

God is love.

Love is . . .

-committed to us. We’re stuck with God for good or ill, like it or not.

-working for us. God wills and works for our good. God will make us like Christ no matter the cost (to us or to him).

-always seeking to save us (and we always need to be saved). We’re loster than we can imagine, God is more resourceful than we’ll ever know. There’s little God won’t do, other than not be himself, to save us. This may seem to put a dent in his reputation, vex and perplex us, raise all kinds of doubts, even at times drive us away from him (really or ideas of him) so we might truly find him and be saved.

-tough as nails (like the ones that bound his Son to the cross) on us and our world as needed.

-accepting us, actually sitting next to us on any trash heap we end up on, like Job’s friends sans the lousy theology.

-challenging us to be as good as we were made to be.

-unfathomable as chess’s Grandest Master playing all of us at the same time and somehow allowing us to beat him so that all of us, including God, wins.

-having a human-shaped hole in God’s heart that only we can fill (except we won’t).

-loving us with a God-shaped love (that is, cross-like) that woos and enables us to fill that hole.

-rejoicing in all our quirks and peculiarities because each of us is made like God.

-untying the knots and tangles we get balled up in often letting us think we did it ourselves (God is not a  glory hog).   

-as jealous of his reputation as he is of us . . . because we are God’s reputation.

-all this and more – at the same time.

God is love.