Builtin Transcendent Romanticism
What is God’s love, though? We’ve talked before indepth of it but what is it actually? How can one thing encompass both the vastness of all infinity and the infinitesimally temporal as singular human life? We are at the lip of precipice. Across it is a straight and narrow bridge of ice, leading through the darkness, and though we cannot see the other side immediately, we can know it is there absolutely.
This love from divinity informs us of who we are, if we can pay attention and focus. We are His loving servants bowing to greater purpose, as stewards of our people’s knowledge of His grace. What a great task! How fortunate are we in it? We only become consequential in the best ways through Him, yet this very system He designed makes our love and service all the more precious and not simply of huge consequence. To be loved by God is our gift in reality, eternally cherished in submission, which is entirely true faith in His goodness and plans.
Our failures are then ours alone, yet so lovingly excused. His divine love is the cornerstone of all moral actions. We are thus compelled to act with compassion modelled after God’s affection, seek after God’s justice, and forgive as our Heavenly Father forgives. It is this kind of love that lines up courage that can confront our own failures, and more reasonably contend with those of others as well. That daily, hourly prayer that reminds us of God’s love becomes the lantern in the darkness, brighter with use and illuminating that icy bridge through it. Virtues are set in the conditioning of our hearts, and beyond doubts or despair as untouchable by them.
Most importantly, prayer calls us to love, again beyond those hurdles. This is a way of life and way to seeing the greater universals which define our path, if not imperfect us in our particular aligning toward it. God’s affection demands we love others necessarily, even our enemies, and there is no other choice for it. We see the divine spark in every soul, despite all the things that do really divide us. Know you may act with kindness even when it is inconvenient or costly, but not to your doom or against the best good and greatest love you can afford with your actions. This is the true essence of prayer in conversation with God transformatively in challenge of the self through and for the greater purposes in the divine grace.