by Eileen Norman

Created on: July 23, 2009

The Love of God

The Love of God is the only thing

of any importance at all.

The love of God is so incredibly different

and beyond compare,

that it boggles our ability to believe in it

enough to accept it.

No matter how much we have been loved

by family and friends,

no matter how famous and wildly adored

by the multitudes,

nothing has ever been more than

a barely glimpsed shadow

of the love of God.

The love of God is all that is necessary.

We need nothing more

than to know the unconditional love of God

with our whole mind,

to experience it with an open heart

until our spirit is so filled

with it that we simply pass it on

by letting it overflow,

this love of our God.

We begin to glimpse the love of God

when we consider

the possibility that the creator of the universe

chose to walk in our skin,

to experience the frustrating and fearful limits

of being human,

being born under crushing political oppression,

a scorned minority,

bearing physical exhaustion and bodily pain,

the heartbreak

of being abandoned and even betrayed

by his only friends,

publicly ridiculed, tortured and killed,

even taking the

leap of faith into the darkness of death

to show us there is more,

because of His love.

The love of God can free us to see ourselves

exactly as we are,

to accept our own need for forgiveness

without guilt, just true sorrow

that brings a joy that sets us free from fear

and gives us grace to change.

The love of God begins to free us to forgive

both ourselves and others.

the love of God heals us of the crippling wounds

that stunt our growth in love,

the love of God takes our mustard seed of good

and nurtures it with grace,

the love of God builds our faith and sets us free

to die and live again.

The love of God is

personal, unconditional, and eternal.

When all else fails,

the power of the love of God remains.

Nothing is greater

than the love that God expressed in Jesus,

The love of God for you.

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