God wants to be rigidly
inflexible, unmovable, constantly constant to us, so that we are secure in our
knowledge of who He is. God is Love: all
the other attributes of God’s nature spring out from and find their source in
His love. God loves, engages and is
deeply personal to us as individuals... as the children of a loving Daddy, as well
as being God Almighty, and He is faithful even when we are unfaithful for He
cannot deny His love for us. God loves us too much to leave us the way we are...
for this we will be eternally thankful. His goal is our perfection, our spiritual
maturity... transformation into Christlikeness. God is relentless in the
pursuit of our perfection, trimming away the callus of our earth-hardened
hearts with laser like precision, what the Apostle Paul called spiritual
circumcision. The circumstances of this life are His divine scalpel as He gently
cuts away our old carnal, earth-bound nature releasing the implanted life of
His Son from within. His love is our only anesthetic... so, sometimes His love
hurts. God’s “Love” as well as His Goodness, Holiness, Righteousness,
Justice... and all His other attributes, can be totally misunderstood if viewed
by the reasoned logic of the world... by the natural mind. God defines His
attributes by His own nature and His promises: Anything that moves us
Godward... that sets our mind on things above... that releases more of His
perfect nature within us... is Good, no matter the earthly cost or pain. We are shaped emotionally by the image of God
we carry in our heart, so it is important to see things God’s way... to kneel
down and kiss the hand that sometimes hurts...
LOVE HURTS...
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