An Aggressive Lover

¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins…..1 John 4:10

When we perceive how much God loves us, an amazing effect is produced in our personalities- we begin to love like Him. We cannot help it. Love- agape love- is not the fruit of labor; it is a response. When we stand at the foot of Calvary, the place where the love of God is fully focused and caught up, the scales drop from your eyes, and our own love flames in response. We love Him because He first loved us.

Teresa of Avila tells of how one day, going into her private room, she noticed a picture of our Lord being scoured before His crucifixion. She must have seen it hundreds of times, but in that moment of revelation she saw it as she had never seen it before. She saw God suffering- suffering over a love and suffering for her. The revelation sent her to her knees sobbing in pain and wonder, and when she arose, she was a changed woman. The revelation of Calvary’s love was the great divide in her life. She said that she arose with a sense of “unpayable debt” and went out to share God’s realized love with others.

Don’t try to manufacture love. Linger in the shadow of the Cross. The love of God finds it’s most burning expression there. Meditate on it. Contemplate on it. Remember that heaven knows no higher strategy for begetting love in mortal hearts tan by granting us a vision of how much we are loved, a visions strong enough to evoke a response in our hearts—and by that answering love begotten in us by the Holy Spirit, we are freed and purged and saved

Prayer;  Father God, I see that before I can love. I must comprehend how much I am loved. Help me be aware in my heart that I have the most aggressive lover in the world and I am eternally grateful.