The great thing
about God’s love is that it’s not determined by the object. God does
not love us because we are good. God loves us because God is good.
It takes our whole lives for that to sink in because that’s not how human love
operates.
Human love is
largely determined by the attractiveness of the object. When someone is
loveable, nice, good, and attractive physically, or has a nice personality, we
find it much easier to give ourselves to them. That’s the way humans operate,
outside of the economy of grace. Divine love is a love that operates in an
unqualified way, without making distinctions between persons and without
following our personal preferences. We don’t have the capacity to receive that
notion! Divine love is received by surrender instead of performance
or perfection.
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