From
Romans 12:1-10
H,
Love
is a hunger often left unfed. Yes, it does sound like the start of one of my
windy poems. Everybody is a critic. Do you know how many clichés are actually
true? That should explain why they are spun a lot. Common webs and all that
This
particular web however is more frontline than most. The unusual courage of
common love is the root, branch, tree and fruit of all belief in God. There is
nothing to say if we do not act in that light before we open our mouths. It is
so dear to the God-life that we are told not to pray to God if we are in the
middle of a fight with all these people along our way and in our life. Love is
all the character the Christian is.
It is
elusive, though. How do we act patient and kind and suffer and not react? Where
do we stand on if we cannot be angry and cannot be snobbish of the idiots and
hurters around us? We love because we
are first loved. Our love is always a reaction to a higher love. It is no
coincidence that the golden rule states love God with all of you and then love
others on par with loving yourself. Our loving God is the reaction we have to
realizing His deep love for us and obedience to His law of love is borne out of
this ‘good infection’ we get by accepting His love first. We cannot love
because it is a good idea. We love because we are loved. We must love because
we are loved.
There
is truly no other way to live in God. There is no brand of theology or
exposition on philosophy that can avoid the duty to be better with others. Friends
and enemies get the same treatment. Threats and overtures bear the same idea of
reacting in love. The freedom to be who we are truly made to be is in the
submission to the being who framed everything in the spirit of love. He is not
just a teacher or mystic or guru or exemplar of love. He is love himself.
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