God So Loved The World

This song "God so loved the world":

It's a song that one would not attach any feelings to and relate to without a significant experience of God's love. Yet, in fact, God is always loving us. It is us who are unappreciative and too proud to see and acknowledge His love and blessings. The lyrics run...

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son

That who so believeth, believeth in Him

Should not perish but have everlasting life

If God, in His ultimate goodness and mercy, and pure in His love for us, is someone we can take for granted, then we can be sure we will take every single person in our lives for granted. 

If God, with His unconditional love, who paid up His own life for ours, is someone we make use of for our needs, then we can be sure we will manipulate every single person in our lives, love ones or acquaintances, for our own benefits. 

If God, with His faithfulness to us even to the point of a humiliating death on the cross, is someone we abandon in our good times and betray for our worldly pleasures, then we can be sure we will certainly fail in faithfulness to any one person in our lives. 

If God, who stands by us as immovable as a rock even when we seem to have thrown Him out of our minds, and who is perfect in all ways, is someone we cannot commit the steadfastness of our faith to and put our complete trust and believe in, then we can be guaranteed we will never be able to trust any human person who is flawed as we all are.

If God, who gives us more than we can ever deserve, is someone we cannot love everyday, every moment, wholeheartedly without expecting anything from Him, then we are incapable of truly loving any human person.

If we cannot love this God who watched His only beloved Son be tortured for us sinners, how then can we love anyone else? It is only when we come to realise the perfection of God's love in our lives that we are able to learn this love and in turn, extend this love unto others. Perhaps, in this lifetime, we may never reach the total instillation of this love in our lives and thus, never reach the ability to extend the purest of love to our neighbours. Nevertheless, our lives are but a pilgrimage on earth and our final destination in heaven is something we cannot alter. Without feeling despair, we could strive with each day towards the perfection of this love as we take every day that the Lord grants to us as a renewed opportunity for us to love purer than the day that's passed. Perhaps, this would prepare us more readily towards our purification to meet Jesus one day.  

4 July 2010

10.45pm