Are People Worth Loving?

In recent years I've had a few close relationships suddenly separated by a chasm. Regardless of whose is to blame; it's most painful and disappointing, among other things. And it happened again recently, several times, and it's left me wondering why bother being around people at all if there is no true foundation for even the most desolated relationship to be rebuilt on?

In this vulnerable place I find a most tangible comfort. To find peace and joy in a valley of hatred and spoil is humbling. It comes from reflecting on my reason and purpose for existing, and the story of Jesus. Lately, it usually makes me weep before the words can leave my lips. In this place though, I suddenly remember how many times I must have treated my creator with similar contempt.

During this I find I love him even more. Like holding your first child and knowing how you couldn't possibly love someone any more, and then holding a second child realizing it still happened.

Thank you for your mercy and grace Father! Thank you for your sacrifices Jesus!

This leads me to question how he maintains faith in us. Most cite it's a mystery, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I have found you can't truly love our creator if you don't learn how to loves us first.

As I consider this I find that surely you can't love someone if you don't have faith in their character. Trust is the house of love and without it there is no where for love to dwell and abide - much less grow. So our creator must have faith and trust in us. But why?

Here I rediscover that we are an image of our creator, being a by product of his universe. The Bible is stunningly accurate when it says that we're not only an image; but the image of our creator. You can find that reference in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 27 in the first sentence.

Knowing this also tells me that whatever brings about our destruction, as people in relationships especially; has no place in our life, loves home - for the sake of poetry. So I should cast those things out, the products of fear, that would keep these relationships torn down and again take confidence in love, true love, love like our creators love, and tirelessly work until they're rebuilt.

I can't save the world, that was Jesus' role. But I can raise better people for the world to come, that's my job.

I Believe You God

I don't know of the Bible claiming to be Your "Word", dictated. But I do believe that it, in fact is still used to perfectly represent you at the exact moments you intend it to and in no others.

That these moments of encountering your words are not at the turning of a page or harmonizing with a song. Rather at the moment you mysteriously choose and reveal to us by faith. Faith that isn't conjured by the cheap recycling of mans services, but the great and awesome power of the one creator.

Tonight, as with many other nights, the words of the Bible have apprehended me and my present circumstances in a way that is clearly intentional and not simply happenstance.

Its by Faith, in the nature of our Creator - your character, that we come to truly know you. Not by words, or actions, circumstances or environment. But by all things that provoke us in faith to believe completely and progressively in You.

I don't know exactly why you use the Bible so often as your mouthpiece, but I believe you do. And that you did tonight. And I thank you for your consideration and affection for me.

I also thank you for the revelation of how my character, in its purest form, reveals to me no less than the same about you. That is to say that if I'm capable of love, generosity, excitement, joy, singing, dancing, and so much more... then the same must be true of you as well because nothing could come to exist without you first.

You are God, and I am not. I am human, and your ways are above my ways. I am free from the burden of omniscience and it's liabilities. Thank you God. I love you. And I wish to love you as rightly and truly and fiercely as you love me.

In the midst of an exponentially complicated fallout of a volatile act by another person; I read Ecclesiastes' final two chapters. Exhorting it's reader not to allow the excitement and events of your youth to overshadow your awareness and affection for your Creator. But to begin life there and carry that forward.

This is a divine message from God to me because this has been a topic in my life ever so presently, as recent as this morning.