FREE LOVE – The biggest Paradox of the last
Century. The two words in the same sentence, Free and Love is a joke. Let alone
using Free as an adjective describing the noun LOVE. It’s as false as saying “Dry Water.” Just as Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton didn’t
charge the world to use their discovery, did not mean that their discovery came
FREE. The cost and value of such wisdom is priceless and extremely expensive to
those who invested life to discover it. Even though we hold it free.
However, those who have dared to use
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity without the reality that such expensive
knowledge has brought the world to a near peril. This single piece of FREE
knowledge has cost and is still costing the world $trillions (Nuclear Weapons).
Trying to teach a parent to give a
child love unconditionally will cost that parent his life. For I as a Preacher
of the Bible or counseling Psychologist try and teach a man or woman to love
their spouse unconditionally will advise them in the Art of Sacrifice.
“For God so loved the world that he
gave…” is still the most expensive “unconditional Love” known to the world.
True, it cost YOU nothing for God to LOVE you unconditionally. It cost YOU
nothing for God to display his love when you were unloving. Yes, it is true,
“God loved us in while we were yet sinners” (Rom 5:8). When we could not love
him, he loved us. Not because we deserved it but when we were at our worse.
“Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom 5:6).
However, even when Jesus loved and
gave his life for us, yet his death could have or would have done us NO good
unless we would have RECEIVED his gift. “And whosoever believes in him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
What are you saying pastor? I’m
saying that LOVE, true love is real. It is not mere words on a card. It is
not a flower in a vase. True love is blood, sweat and tears. Therefore,
true love and selfishness cannot be in same room. Unconditional love is
expensive. It is self sacrificing and can hurt. But the rewards are unparallel.
Every Blessing comes with
Brokenness. Every gift comes with a price. Every love comes with a sacrifice.
It is impossible for me to give or receive “Unconditional Love” by itself. I
must RECEIVE unconditional love if it is to impact me. God can give
unconditional love, but it will never reach me until I Receive it. The
condition is “Whosoever believes.” The dynamics work in the Ebb and Flow. “We
love him because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
There is no greater subject in all
the world like that of LOVE. Love is the greatest feeling for feeling. Love is
the eternal motive and cause for all creation. Love is seen in the father’s
eyes and the mother’s embrace. Love is known by many and craved by all. Love is
the most common subject yet one of the most perplexing subject.
Love has been the cause of wars and
the cause of peace. Love has been the death to many and the life of most. Love
is seen in the face of a two year old with his daddy. Love, true love is
WORSHIP. To love God is to worship God. “Great love has no one than this that a
man would lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Jesus loved you so much
he did MORE than just TALK. He GAVE – his all.
By
Dr Tim McClure
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