Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Truth, Love and Grace

There are many ways to love a person. Everybody has their own concept of love and loving, and to each, that's their definition of love and the best way to love. These ideas and concepts may contradict. So what then is true love? Does it encompass all these different perspectives?

I think God does not accept all ways. He has His own definition of love, which is the unconditional giving and sacrifice, perfectly demonstrated by the sending of His son to die for us. Can a person's over-possesiveness be called love? Then his concept is warped, and is not in line with the way God wants us to love. This is when the grace of God comes in. He knows your weaknesses: your inabilities to conceptualise perfectly His idea of love, your selfishness, your lack of wisdom to discern etc. So he takes that into account when He considers your intentions. If your intention is far from wanting to love, even though you may appear to do so, that He might not pardon. But if you really want to love, and am trying hard, even if you are doing it the wrong way, He sees your effort and notes it. He strips away all of you, and just looks at your heart. He does not take into account your emotional abuse that you suffered as a child, the poor family relationships that you had resulting in a cruel and wicked mind, but as long as you spare one effort trying to do good, he will take note of it, and store it in His book of merit.

That's the grace of God.

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