It is funny to me the reactions I get when I say "The love I'm talking about is absolute love for an enemy--in the absolute sense that you would die for them to live."
I said this to the youth today, we got to have a pretty good discussion tonight. Agnese and Emils lead everything (and they did great.) Over all, we had a small group. But there was this one person there, that I know really needed to have the word "love" defined for them in an unconditional sense.
After I had said that, I said- some one did that for you. Jesus let Himself be nailed to a cross, died, and rose again when we still hated Him...(though I can't take credit for those words... due to my uncanny ability to forget everything when speaking to groups of people, however small.) This single person's jaw dropped, and they gasped. I mean, really? Never had this kind of love been explained to her.
What made it even better, is that I had needed to hear those words myself. I have recited things like "Jesus loves you" sine I could talk, but tonight those words were absolute reality. And I do mean absolute.
Journal entry after journal entry is related to love.
"Lord, help me love"-"Why do I avoid love?"-"I love mexican food"-"How can I possibly love something so screwed up, how can I love this... me"
All of these things are mentioned over and over again in my own personal leather book...
Tonight I hit a glimpse of that love that I crave daily; and it brings me to tears. How absolutely loved am I? Are you?
Wow...
hey,
I love you.
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I think our culture has overused the word love. I think that we have cheapened it considerably - like you say - I love you and I love mexican food are on the same level anymore. We do not know the depths of God's love for us. How can He truly love me - with all my faults? Let me tell you - your parents love you with all your faults. He knows you - he knows what makes you tick, he knows what makes you mad, he knows what makes you sad, he knows the ugly thoughts, he knows the things that you struggle with, he knows the plans that he has for you. He loved - unconditionally loved - David, Bathsheba, Solomon, Paul, Judas...all of them, warts and all. None of them where perfect...just as none of us are perfect. We struggle, we fall down - but we are held in His hand. We are loved - truly deeply, completely loved. That is the love that will be complete in us when we get to heaven - do we unconditionally love Him? Do we love him when things don't go our way or we are told to wait, or tough times come? That is the hard part. He loves us even when we don't love him. He may not like us very much at that moment, but he will always love us - enough to die for us! More than your parents even!!!
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