Pure Love!
Soul Snack 9/156 ... Pure Love - A
God is not surrounded in love! Love is the essence, the construction of His being. Love emanates from Him, radiating indiscriminately into both the aware and the unaware. All recipients are ineligible for His love, fortunately eligibility is no criteria for its reception. It is in fact His essence. Without it - God is not God, nor can He be good.
A God whose essence and construction is love surely sees all my frailties, failings and fears. He knows my losses and walks beside me in my despairs.
The deprivation of human affirmation, the absence or finitude of warm human response sears across the soul and spirit. Yet such sufferings aren't impediments to ‘being seized by the power of a great affection.'#* For this is what the Cross intends for us.
In fact the very items that burn the soul and scar the spirit become His conduit of His love to me. They are how He seizes me. His pure love invades all my impurities. His pure love will hold me pure forever.
" ... with everlasting kindness
I will have compassion on you,"
says the LORD your Redeemer. Is 54:8b
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# Quote from B. Manning - The Wisdom of Tenderness - Ch 1