For a love relationship to be healthy there must be a mutual loss of independence. It cant just be one way. Both sides must say to the other, I will adjust for you. I will change for you. Ill serve you even if it means a sacrifice for me. If only one party does all the sacrificing and giving, and the other does all the ordering and taking, the relationship will be exploitative and will oppress and distort the lives of both people. At first sight then, a relationship with God seems inherently dehumanizing. Surely it will have to be one way. Gods way, God, the divine being, has all the power. I must adjust to God- there is no way that God could adjust to and serve me. While this may true in other forms of religion and belief in God, it is not true in Christianity. In the most radical way God has adjusted to us - in his incarnation and atonement. In Jesus Christ he became a limited human being, vulnerable to suffering and death. On the cross he submitted to our condition - as sinners - and died in our place to forgive us....A friend of C.S. Lewis was once asked, Is it easy to love God? and he replied It is easy to those who do it. That is not as paradoxical as it sounds. When you fall deeply in love, you want to please the beloved. You dont wait for the person to ask you to do something for her. You eagerly research and learn every little thing that brings her pleasure...and it doesnt feel oppressive at all....For a Christian, its the same with Jesus. - Tim Keller
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:09:29 +0000
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