by Tracy Baker

Created on: April 18, 2009   Last Updated: April 20, 2009

If you will, imagine for a moment a baby being born to drug addicted parents, who loved their drug of choice more than they did the baby; always using their money for drugs instead of using it to care for their baby. Imagine this baby growing up to marry a person who loved themselves more and put their own wants and needs before anything else including their spouse.

Now, imagine that this person, who from birth was never loved as much as they should have been by the people in its lives, dies and goes to Heaven only to have God tell it to its face that there were others that He loved more? Anyone who believes that God can ever love some more than others obviously don't have a clear picture of who or what God really is.. But the full blame for this ignorant type of thinking can't be placed just on those who believe it.

Since the beginning of organized religion there has been one religion or another telling their congregations that theirs is the favored religion of God making them feel as if they are special in God's eyes or more loved than others. But religion was not created by God - it was created by people - people who benefit from their congregation thinking that God loves their religion more than any others. Whether it is by God or just by other people, everyone wants to feel more loved than anyone else. It makes them feel special and that their existence has meaning, which it indeed does. But how egotistical is it to believe that God loves any one of us more than he loves any other? The fact that God loves us all just the same regardless of our beliefs, mistakes or bad choices is what makes God... well God!

The sad truth is that no matter how much other people love us in this world, that love is a responsibility that can at times be a heavy burden. Almost every choice we make, or even those we don't are based on the love we have for others or the love they have for us. Out of fear of losing that love, or disappointing and hurting those who love us, we often times make our choices for them and not ourselves.

But the one thing we can all count on is that no matter what choices we make in this life, bad or good, God loves us all without judgment and without prejudice. Neither our religions nor our actions have anything to do with it. And when it's time to once again return to our eternal home God will be there waiting to embrace us in that love. Then and only then will the magnitude of His love truly be understood...

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