God Is (4)

GOD IS LOVE

“God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them"

PATIENT LOVE

Have you ever seen a mother or a father standing with open arms waiting for one of their children to run in to them? What happens when the young child throws themselves in to the open arms of the parent? In an instant their little bodies are wrapped in the embrace of their loving mother or father who sees them as the object of their desire and passion.

Can you imagine a parent standing for minute after minute to hour after hour - a whole day - waiting for the child they love to run in to their arms – but the child never comes? It is so engrossed in its own activities that it never sees the parent who loves and longs for them standing with open arms waiting – waiting to lovingly embrace them.

As we stop and stare we may hear the parent gently calling, pleading for the chid to come – but they are so self obsessed they choose not to hear.

Were such a thing to happen it would surely draw the attention of passers by for it goes beyond the borders of normal human behaviour. Some would conclude that parent had some mental problem while others might see a broken heart and feel some sympathy for the parent so ignored and rejected by their child.

Try for a moment to imagine all the love in that parent’s heart – and then magnify it a million times. Even that is not enough to have some measure of understanding of the pain that God feels when his children reject his love. He once said to those who were the object of his desire -   “I have spread out My hands all the day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts”. (Isaiah 65 - Amplified Bible) This is patient love.