As an aspiring blogger, I’ve always been keen to try to make notes on things that might be inspiring, thought provoking, and helpful. I’m not sure I’ve really been managing that recently. Of course, it’s always far to easy to let your current situation overwhelm and dictate the way you do things.
I’ve been really struck recently by the use of the word ‘love’, and how it so often becomes a cover-all for things we don’t like, or some kind of self-justification for all the dreadful things we are actually doing – “because at least, deep down, we love each other and are doing our best!”
Tish, pshaw and nonsense. When Jesus told us to love each other just as He has loved us, what did that really mean? I mean, when you stop and think about it, that means that for Jesus, loving someone meant tipping over their tables, rejecting what they currently perceived, albeit wrongly, as their chosen method of making income. Loving someone meant looking them in the eye and saying “Get behind me, Satan!”, risking them taking on all kinds of fear and rejection. Loving us meant not falling in line to the assumptions of those around Him about who He might be and what He was going to do – it meant instead of rising up and leading a coup against the Roman oppression, He submitted to those very oppressing hands to be strung up and effectively murdered in a public display of ‘justice’.
To love does not mean buying everyone a giant, pink, fluffy Forever Friends card at Clintons.
To love is to risk rejection, pain, misunderstanding, confusion, and despair.
But we love because it’s worth it. And the benefits far outweigh the sufferances.
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