Amazing love

It never fails to amaze, touch and just totally awe me at how much God loves, for He is love. The depth, sweetness and awesomeness of it is just beyond words.


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That longing—to know God and experience His love—originates with God. It is His calling, His wooing that awakens us to desire. Indeed, we would not seek Him if He did not first seek us. Our longing for intimacy and union is the answering cry of our hearts to His call.

Our need for intimacy always outstrips the capacity of another human being to satisfy it. We will always betray another’s love in one way or another. This is what Original Sin means: No one is completely trustworthy; no one will always “keep covenant.” We will always let one another down.

That hunger—for something beyond human love—is the way God leads us to His love. In each of us there is a deep and holy place reserved for Him alone, a place that no one else, not even the greatest human lover, can ever fill. We draw near to God to find final affection.

Imagine! God wants you, not for your body, your clothes, your talent, your intellect, your personality, but simply because you are you! He loves you. He cannot take His eyes from you.

“Ah,” you say. “How could He love poor me? I am dark with sin and guilt, loathsome, grotesque.” No, you are His “perfect one” (Song 6:9). He sees awesome beauty in you.

“Love is blind,” you say. No, infatuation is blind, but not God’s love. He sees you as you are, yet He sings to you.

My dove in the clefts of the rock,
in the hiding places on the mountainside,
show me your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely (Song of Songs 2:14).

Is this illusion? No, it is clear-sighted love. God’s eyes are filled with your beauty. He loved you before your father, spouse, or children loved you (or wounded you). “If you were the only person on earth, He would have gone to all the trouble He went to just to win you,” one early Christian writer said. Does this not excite us?

Whatever your heart may be saying at this moment, you must know that God is the lover of your soul. Even now, in your unperfected state, He cries out to you, “How beautiful you are . . . how beautiful.”

We are special objects of God’s favor and affection. His is a love that swallows up every love in its fullness. The Song in this way becomes more than a love song. It becomes adoration and worship.

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