Passing thought

I wanted to write this down while it was still in my mind. I was driving home from work the other night, and I happened to have local Christian radio station on. I do that once in a while just in case they have a good song playing (which, I suppose, happens often enough that I keep trying it). There was some sort of CCM girl group on, and one of the lines was something like, "Lord, you love me, even though I don't deserve it."

I thought to myself how irrelevant of a statement that is. It's like saying, "Lord, you love me, enough though I'm not purple".

What I mean to say is that God does not love in the way we do. He is love, and it comes from Him. We, on the other hand, tend to love only those things which are "love-able" to us. Some may have broader borders as to what constitutes "love-able", but we are all the same.

In God's case, the object has no bearing on whether He loves it, because He is love... that's what He's made of and that's what He does.

It reminds me of my youth pastor from when I a teen. He said, he'd give anyone $100 if they could ask him a bible question he couldn't answer (and he admitted there was one). No one ever stumped him, as far as I know. He'd always admit at the end that the one question he couldn't answer was, "why does God love us". It was until years later, when I was listening to a tape (yes, a tape) of Brennan Manning, and he explained that God loves us not because of who we are, that's irrelevant. It's because of who He is... Love.

So, next time you run into one of those songs of "I don't deserve it", now you know that it doesn't matter.