A Thought and a Prayer (April 2015)
Jesus left a radical example of how we are to love and radical proof of how we've been and are loved. The New Testament stories about Jesus are past tense- what He did do, what He did say, how He did sacrifice His life for ours. The Truth of those stories, the immense grace, the net of security, and the bar of requirement they establish, are meant to be told in present tense. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then as He loved the rebellious, the scandalous, the doubter as much as the devout, then He still does so now. The radical example he set was for the purpose of loving one another. He showed me who and how so that I may love as he loved- radically and without condition. If I am to love as Jesus loved, I must first have the strength to understand the dimensions of his love, the length, height, depth, and breadth. It will take strength to understand it because I am a human with human experiences. The disappointments I have encountered speak to future disappointments, speak to how I have disappointed others. Disappointments make barriers. The barriers I carry and the barriers those around me carry block us from one another. Let love wreck them. The dimensions in which I am rooted cannot be contained, that I would lay down my life for a friend, that I would let the constructed walls be torn down so that I can touch another human being with human experience. So that I might see beyond experience and see a spirit longing to see the radical nature of a loving God. His love leaves me without excuse. My prayer when I feel without compassion in a world dying for it, is that His love would be my reservoir. His love, my resource. The radical example and the radical proof have left me with one command, let love wreck the whole of me and all my walls. Love is a Kingdom tactic, love is how the Kingdom comes.
Ephesians 3.... and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
All the fullness of God, comprehended and extravagantly given away.
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