You think you know, but you have no idea...

Prologue: You may find it difficult to let go of some human relationships that are harmful to your relationship with Christ.  On the other hand, you may find it difficult for people to let go of you or for their feelings for you to change.  It's tough because most people are scared to be alone so I wrote what comes next for you.  I hope that I can persuade you that the love you think you are getting from people is basically...crap (for lack of a better word) compared to God's love.

Most human love has conditions.  Conditions are circumstances that effect our feelings of love towards another person.  The effect can be positive or negative.  In other words some things make us love a person more and some things make us love a person less.  Let me give you a drastic example to illustrate my point.  Let's say you are madly in love with a person, what effect do you think finding out that your "love" was sexually attracted to small children would have on you? Hmmm, mmm, not good right?  Now that one was way out in left field but let me try to hit a home run.  People love people less for lying, stealing, cheating, not buying them stuff, gaining weight, etc. etc.  Parents disown their daughters for getting pregnant before they got married.  Father's refuse to even acknowledge a son who decides he prefers men over women. Best friends cut each other off over relationships with the opposite sex every hour of every day.  And the list goes on and on.  There is evidence all around us on a daily basis that human love is flawed and limited so the obvious question is why do people seem to prefer this love over God's love????

The only answer that I can come up with is that people don't realize that unlike our love, God's love does not depend on our actions and there is no limit to it.  If you look at the examples of God's love in the bible, he loved murders, thieves and liars all the same and without limit.  In fact, the most critical thing about God that you need to know (in support of this point) is WHEN God first loved you.  Did God first love you when you decided to give your life to him? No. Did God even love you more when you decided to give your life to him? No. Will God love you less if you never decide to give your life to him? No.  God first loved us before we were even capable of making a decision, in fact, it was before we were born (or before our parents even met).  Here is some bible to back me up: God DEMONSTRATED his love for us in this way, when we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).  Remember, God loved the world so much that he gave his only son...(John 3:16) and this happened way before we stumbled on the scene messing everything up.

On top of the fact that Christ died for us before we even started messing up, get this, when God first loved us, he already knew ALL of the nasty disgusting things we were going to do.  Yes!  God knows EVERYTHING about you and God still loves you.  Who else can you say that about?  No matter how much we may think we love a person most of us have our limits.  If you don't think you have limits, it's because you don't realize how truly wicked the people you think you love are capable of being.  I can personally assert that most people think that I am a pretty decent person but let me let you in on a secret.  If you knew everything I had ever done or even thought of doing, you would think I was horrible and I'm ok with that because you aint God.  I've had to deal with some things just between me and God, other things involved other people and were quite messy but in the end I have this to say: I am NOT perfect but I am forgiven and I will not be ashamed anymore (I stole that from a song by Leon Timbo, check him out).  That's what God's unconditional unlimited love has done for me.  It has taken away my guilt and my shame and lifted me above the awful pits I dug for myself.

I care about people but I don't care what people think about the BAD things I have done because I am in love- truly, madly, deeply.  So why would I and why would you choose a limited person over this infinite God?  Make better choices.