its impossible to love God's creation of humanity without having a genuine relationship with him. you may be able to love some people, but not everyone.
look at the situation of a loving parent and their loved child. no matter what that child does, the parent will always love them. because they are theirs. that child may be disobedient. or rude. or hurtful. whatever. that parent always loves their child.
God loves all creation. no matter how bad they mess up. no matter how mad they may get at God. God will always be there to love on them. all of creation is God's children.
but God also calls us to love one another. everyone. thats totally inexclusive btw (pronounced: bee-tee-dub).
if you dont have the Holy Spirit living in you, then the task of loving everyone is a task of loving more so than God. that is of course, understanding that im limiting Gods love to the familiar love that we know as parental love. but what else can i do but compare?
but thats impossible. God loves everyone because they are all his. for someone to love everyone even though they arent theirs, thats a love higher than God's. which cannot be done.
but. if you have that God (aka Holy Spirit) inside you, the task seems a little more tangible i think. you have the possibility of loving everyone because its God. not you.
not you.
its not about you anyway.
its not about you.
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Nick,
ReplyDeletethis is so awesome to me that you wrote this. You truly get the whole "Jealous God" thing that Piper talked about at passion. It def ok that you compared it to a parent loving their child bc i did the same thing. I also compared it to a bride and groom bc we are the "bride of Christ" and brides want nothing more than to be wanted 100% by their husbands and thats is a great picture of love how proud that groom gets on his wedding day.. God loves us just like that. I completely agree with ur statement that it takes the Holy Spirit to love some people as well, theres no way i could find the love in dirty ole me to love some people when their annoying or hurt me but when u pray for them and stuff it gets so much easier when Gods love is pouring out of you. I see such great things in u Nick, Hang in there :)