Gods love was revealed to us in this way: God sent his one and only son into the world so that we might live through him.
When we reflect on God’s Love it’s important to remember to slow down and consider what that word means. We mean way way too many things in our language to take in that verse without intention.
I’ve already talked a lot about this idea of charity about loving because of the need of the other. But here are some additional things to reflect on when it comes to God’s Love/Charity.
(1) God’s love isn’t just an emotion, a phase, a state or even a decision. God’s charity is His essential essence. God is made out of love for those who need love. When you consider this it is absurd to think that God ever stops loving anyone. He loves based upon OUR NEED FOR LOVE. When does that change or diminish? Maybe it can.... in the very darkest of paths. Maybe that is what it means to truly “grieve the Spirit”, when we burn away out need for love.
(2) We have some familiarity with this kind of love... both of us.... and it’s called A PUPPY! Why oh why do I love this puppy? Surely it isn’t because this puppy can do anything for me. At 4 am this morning when Penny needed to pee and crying softly in her kennel, why did every part me awake and orient and take her outside? It was because she needed it. I experienced Need-Love, Charity. That love is in us. The kind that does it because it needs to be done.
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