That means it is a suffering love, giving to the point of excruciating pain. Go a step further and you discover that rocks and trees are just as deserving as ships and rockets, and that there is nothing in all creation that is exempt from God's love once it starts to flow. In fact, dogs and cats are just as deserving as children and pensioners. Praying about the needs of others may take me a little closer to being a vessel for God's love but, then again, it depends on the attitude with which I pray whether I think I am capable of manipulating events or whether I accept that God alone moves mountains.Īs the above quote says, "The great thing about God's love is that it's not determined by the object." Turn this on its head and you end up with the revelation that the rich and beautiful are just as deserving of God's love as the poor and ugly. Pitching up at a soup kitchen or hospital may make it easier because I am where the poor and unwell are but pitching up there might also just result in me getting underfoot.
I cannot prepare for it by studying the Bible or attending a seminar. It is a case of me trying to stay out of the way so that God can love them through me.įrankly, I don't know how this happens. So, it is not a case of me trying to love the homeless, the oppressed or the sick. But God can and does when I am an open channel.
I cannot love people unconditionally because it is impossible to do so out of my human nature. It does flow through me, by faith, because I have offered myself to God as a vessel to be used for spreading His love. In short, it is eminently gracious, requiring only that we surrender to receive it.Īll this is wonderful to contemplate, but today I am reflecting on how divine love flows through me to the world. It is freely given without reference to appearance, performance or preference. The piece went on to say that divine love makes no distinction between persons.
It takes us our whole lives for that to sink in because that's not how human love operates." God does not love us because we are good. "The great thing about God's love is that it's not determined by the object. The quote, attributed to Richard Rohr, went as follows: This is what happened when I turned around a quote that I came across recently. Sometimes, when you turn things round, you get a different perspective which throws new light on a familiar subject.
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