The United States launched an attack on Syria, principally because of our outrage at the horrible death of young innocents. We were willing to risk public condemnation and even death of our own because of the injustice we saw.
We were not so innocent when the Lord of the Universe allowed his only son to die for us. He didn’t wait until we cleaned up or even took one step toward purity and holiness. That’s a kind of love that’s foreign to our understanding.
We marry for life or until our partner no longer meets our needs. We love others as long as they look like us, talk like us, and are unoffensive to us. Our love is completely conditional. Our God loved without condition and before we had any hint of loveableness in us.
We are so pathetic when, even after coming to Christ, we strive to love on our own. The agape love of Jesus is possible only through the accomplished work of Jesus through the ongoing work of His Holy Spirit. We are incapable of it on our own.
I am proud that our country struck back in outrage at the death of innocents splashed before us on television screens. I just wish we had the morality to act similarly at the decades of death and torture that have been taking place off screen in the much less in our face scenarios in Africa.
O Lord my God, very God and very man, what a wonderful thing, worthy of faith, and surpassing all the understanding of humankind, that you give yourself to us. Your bread and wine is inexhaustible food. You, O Lord of all, who have need of nothing, have desired to dwell in us.
Watkins, James (2016-01-12). The Imitation of Christ: Classic Devotions in Today’s Language (Kindle Locations 390-392). Worthy Publishing. Kindle Edition.
I love and will strive to serve a God who loved me when I was even more unloveable than I am now.
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