Wingapo friends!
This blog is a little different. It is a letter-prayer I journaled. The idea was prompted while reading through Isaiah and Ezekiel. What does it look like to love the offender?
Dear Babylon,
Love can be painful. Love is not natural to us; it is extra natural . But, we were made to be extra natural. We were made for the things of heaven. We were made to love. That makes it hard, but so amazing. I cannot love, but there is a place in me that is made for God, so that I may experience Him loving others through me. So that I may partake in something of heaven. So we may experience the Lord, and share Him with others.
So love, when I am in the Lord, is very easy. I am not doing anything. The question is not how can I love you: it’s ohw can I not?
I am faithless. I am every bit as shameful as Israel with none of the excuses. God has again and again showed me his faithfulness is greater than my faithlessness. I can hold no offence against anyone else. I have offended in the most grievious ways, yet I have been forgiven and loved through it. How can I not do the same for others? How could I not desire to extend the same love and grace God gave me?
When I start to feel justified in not loving, I review how much the Lord has redeemed in me; I talk to Him about the wonderful way he created/creates, and once again the Lord shows me how amazing His love is. If I do nothing else in this world, I want to leet God’s love and the truth of it to pour out through me. I want to be re-made to love with more of me.
Praise the Lord all the earth, all the heavens, and all things beyond. His love knows no bounds. How glorious is The One Who Creates with Love!
With love in God,
Katherine
