Think about the person that you love most. More than any other person on the planet and more than yourself. The person that if given the choice between saving your life and saving theirs, you'd choose them. Every single time. The person who, now matter what they do to hurt you, you love them too much to hold a grudge. The person who is so important to you that you will forgive them for everything they've ever done to hurt you and so much more. The person who you know inside and out, their darkest secrets and their most disgusting struggles or temptations, yet you still have so much love for that person that to you, they are worth so much more than that. To you, their aspirations and the goodness they have in their heart shines through so brightly that you want to be their strength when they're weak, you want to encourage them to embrace their potential for godliness and encourage them to resist temptation in the most loving and gentle manner possible, because you love them and know that they're so much more than their past or their struggles. That person that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one else on this planet can ever love them as much as you love them, especially if anyone else knew as much about them as you did. The one who you just want to be in their life because their happiness means so much to you that you know their life will just be better with you in it.
You have the person in your head? Now, the person you may be thinking of may not be a romantic sort of love. That's fine. Just imagine that amount of love that you have for that person.
Now imagine if that person rejected you. Hurt you. Ripped your heart out of your chest and stomped all over it. They talk badly about you to the people they hang out with but still manage to ignore you. Imagine that this person scorns you, disrespects you, makes you out to be a joke, blames you for all of their problems and refuses to accept responsibility for the choices that they have made that have put them where they are because it's easier to let you take the fall for their life not being what they want.
Now, imagine how that would make you feel.
Worst pain imaginable right? To love someone that much and have them treat you that way, but to still have so much love and forgiveness in your heart for them that all you want them to do is come back to you and apologize for their behavior and actually be sincere about it so that you can demonstrate your love and forgiveness and have the life together because you know it will worth all the pain.
That is literally the exact thing I'm going through right now. The rejection of this one person is killing me but it got me thinking...
How must God feel when the majority of the world, that He loves more than I would ever be able to love this one person, treats Him in that exact same way?
Really puts things into perspective, no? I can't imagine ever making another person feel this way, but the thought of making God feel this way? So much worse. Not only does He say he'd die for us, but He already has. He loves us more completely than any man or woman would ever be able to. Yet we treat Him horribly and take that love for granted and throw it back in His face and tell Him He's not worth giving up a few earthly things that won't matter in the long run.
I don't know about you, but I would rather experience that love in it's fullness, and love Him back. Certain things just don't seem important when put into their proper perspective.
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