"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be
strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you,
being rooted and grounded in love,
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know
the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
- Ephesians 3: 14-19
The love of God is incomprehensible. As humans we try and wrap it up in neat little packages. For many people it is "God is love" and we let that stand as an excuse for pardon. Others would say that there is no way that God could be love when there is so much bad in the world. But the fault in either position is trying to wrap God and His love into one single statement.
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?"
-Romans 8:35
God set up the standard for us, and we fail to meet that standard. In order for Him to stay God, He can not shift His standard, and because we are human we can not live up to it. In the darkness we brought upon ourselves we sat at an impasse. God, by logic, had every reason to leave us be. He set rules, we didn't live up to them, consequences are all on us. But something other than logic was at play, God's love.
"For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—
though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
but God shows his love for us in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood,
much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God."
- Romans 5:7-9
God loved us so much, that He refused to let us sit in our own grime, hopeless. He did not shift His standard, but instead gave us a way to meet it. His love is not that He decided that it didn't matter what we did with our lives, His love is giving us a way to live up to the standard. That standard that was set up in the garden, where nothing wrong, sad, bad, tragic or misunderstood. He refused to leave us in our own mistakes. No where else is Love so complex, or so complete.
"In this the love of God was made manifest among us,
that God sent his only Son into the world,
so that we might live through him."
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