We are created to love.
Whatever our condition might be. Since the first inhale of air into our body, maybe
even before that, we are called to struggle and mingle with enigmatic and
dynamic mystery which is called love. Even our very existence if it is
sustained until today, the biggest reason of all is love. Greatest commandments start with a command and blessing, “Love....”
What an inevitable
reality! Clouds of witnesses surrounded us in multitude. How we measure the ‘distance’
of earth and heaven? By the presence of love within us, within our family,
within our community and within our nation. Such a tireless and sometimes
exhausting, crushing and so narrow and close to impossible journey! We have to
come face to face with so many challenges and storms just to hold on and stand fast in Love. Real
love is that which has been tested through darkest nights, hottest dessert,
hurdles and hardship. Anything that is not love shall be like chaff and filth in front of fire.
God designs us and makes
us capable of perceiving and responding to love. He gives us His blessing, and
one among the greatest ones is... choice. Whether we choose to trust Him and
thus responding to His love and move toward Him, or to choose anything else as
we desire. This choice makes space for us to joyfully and willingly lay aside
our own self to embrace His All Merciful love. Sadly, we failed from time to
time.
Nothing can overcome His
love, though. He calls every human being into the embrace of His love from ages
to ages. That Love has never lost. Ages to ages has this one strong message to
listen and to ponder: Anytime mankind
depends on their own discernment, perception and strength , they fall
immediately and severely. In the other hand, when they humble themselves before
God and joyfully follow their Maker, clinging to Him with all their hearts and
minds and strengths, they soared like eagle, and transformed into the likeness
of their Lover. Adam and Eve fell for this very reason. Great people of the
past fell for this very reason.
Now around us we see too
obviously that people are craving for love. The
single continuous battle between the seconds of our lifetime is to love
or not to love. Despite the fact that people long for love so badly, they often
find themselves in exact opposite direction of love. Out of fear, guilt and
shame, people make themselves further and further away from the real love. Yet,
in the end, the quality of our life
shall be measured by this: our proximity
to Love; that is our proximity and clinging upon—Christ.
Just as a person who will
dispatch for journey needs supplies and all necessary stuff to reach destination,
we ultimately need them as well. In the very begining of this journey, we need
God’s help and His mercy above all else. No love can be manifested outside of
His mercy. Yes, if you want, you might go with anything less than love, but if
you want the real and pure one, God is the source of power to make it come
true.
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