A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion. Its opposite is a mediocre fellow, neither hot nor cold, moderate to the point of mediocrity. Not worth saving. No salt. Then what about God? What about loving God? One of my main arguments in this essay is that love and God go together, for “God is love,” as the New Testament tells us: Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.... God is love and those who abide in love abide in God and God abides in them (I John 4:7–8, 16).
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:31:20 +0000
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