His Revealing Love

I am the unfaithful. His faithfulness has endured even when the best of love would have given up. Its easy to forget the incredible sacrifice He made for me. Its easy to put it out of my mind that real nails were driven into is limbs and He bled out, in a slow death of overwhelming shock from blood loss. It is easy to forget that He felt all that pain. It has been so easy to walk away. Its incredible because He in His love allows us to leave. He allows us to chose that which is bad for us. Yet perhaps even more astounding is His forgiveness. He lets us come back, and loves us the same. This is love. This is love in is full definition. This love is unspeakable, unheard of even in our more desperate of love stories. It is more amazing and beautiful then my human eyes or mind can conceive. Love is not a human experience or emotion. Love in truth more than humans are truly capable of. Perhaps this is why Paul does not command the wife (the Biblical comparison to the church) to love the husband, but rather to submit to. Perhaps Paul understood what has just been revealed to me. Humans are not capable of true love. We are capable of willing submission, and even I think we are capable of selflessness (all be it rare), but not love. We have a form of affection, connection, and desire that resembles perhaps as closely as possible this thing called love, but it is not true love. We are not capable of true love. And perhaps this is why God's love for us is so astounding and so difficult for us to grasp. God loves us, we are only mere imitators. We are so blessed to serve a God who will reveal his love to us one piece at a time. Who are we that he would share this with us, a self seeking people?