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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 God's Love and Our LoveBeen good to think of this. Your story Carol of your 16-year-old's manifestation of God's love brought home to me what is a useful definition to get in my mind. It's this:God's love in us is God-centric. Human love is self-centric (or ego-centric?). You see, kids in their teens usually think of THEMSELVES, first, second and a long way further... but your son was filled with a love that put God, His pleasure and honour, first. And that brought tears of joy to your son! Great experience for him. Human love can have admirable qualities - it can result in great benefit to others, and to humanity. But God's love puts God first, the motivation is to bring glory to Him, and of course we and all humanity benefit accordingly. Those verses in 1Cor13 tell of God's love thus: Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. The hallmark of God's love in us is when we are not part of the equation - rather, bringing glory to God is paramount (as I think I can see in all those attributes of divine love that Paul mentioned). That ch. finishes "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." Simply, love is greatest because it "never ends" - it is what will endure throughout eternity. But faith and hope won't be of much value once we are actually in God's presence in heaven, both being replaced by the reality of life in God's eternal presence. The reason your question has been good for me to think about Gary, is because while we tend to know what we mean by God's love in our hearts (ie. our feelings), it seems to me that feelings can easily mislead us. Very easy for me to convince myself that the feelings I have for someone are a result of God's love in me. But if I keep in my mind the little test - God's love is God-centric, then I think that's a very useful check on my emotions! # posted by geoff @ 9:50 am 0 comments
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