God's love for us is not mainly His making much of us, but His giving us the ability to enjoy making much of Him forever. In other words, God's love for us keeps God at the center. God's love for us exalts His value and our satisfaction in it. If God's love made us central and focused on our value, it would distract us from what is most precious; namely, Himself. Love labors and suffers to enthrall us with what is infinitely and eternally satisfying: God. Therefore God's love labors and suffers to break our bondage to the idol of self and focus our affections on the treasure of God.
-John Piper, "Pierced by the Word" (p. 13)
When we finally realize that Jesus is not discouraged by our humanity,
is not turned off by our messiness, and simply doggedly pursues us in the face of it all,
what else can we do but give in to His outrageous, indiscriminate love?
-Mike Yaconelli
This blog has been created for messy sinners.
Those who are content with their own "filthy rags" of righteousness
probably won't find what they are searching for here.
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1 comment:
From man, as a result of karma I can see it; however, from God who created us? How does that jive with God is love? God chose eternal damnation for the majority of the world? Why would He do that? What sense does that make. Being all-knowing, He set up such a system and said, “I am love”? I simply can’t get there from what I know about God and particularly from what Jesus revealed.
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