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isn't it funny, that such a rational God, would base everything that He is on something as irrational as love?
sending His Son to die for us, pple who scorn and disobey Him? that's not rational.
forgiving us and helping us over and over despite our continual disobedience and rejection of Him and His truth? that's not rational.
giving us freedom to choose despite being able to control our every move even though He knows we'll make decisions that will hurt Him? that's not rational.
loving us even when we killed His Son, even when we continually disobey, even when we reject and blaspheme His name and outright hate Him? that's not rational
UNCONDITIONALLY loving us, and that love never increasing or decreasing but always so strong and constant for each and every one of us, day in day out, before we were born, during our sinful lives, and after our deaths, until eternity? that's not rational.
and His love is amazing, wonderful, beautiful, and awesome. and yet, it's so SO irrational.
and i think that's so beautiful. it's like i've long said, that it's only logical for God's ways to seem illogical to us, because if we understood them and the logic behind them, then we'd be God, and we aren't. =)
i do love that all these beautiful paradoxical ideas come to mind when we think about God. because that just makes Him even more beautiful, and solidifies the fact that God is so complex and mysterious in so many ways (Because we have very, very small brains), and that is just... awesome, in the very original sense of the word (not the cheap way we use it these days).
so stop and stare at the wonder that is God. =) and be amazed at how His love just doesn't seem to make sense. =)
and give thanksgiving.
sending His Son to die for us, pple who scorn and disobey Him? that's not rational.
forgiving us and helping us over and over despite our continual disobedience and rejection of Him and His truth? that's not rational.
giving us freedom to choose despite being able to control our every move even though He knows we'll make decisions that will hurt Him? that's not rational.
loving us even when we killed His Son, even when we continually disobey, even when we reject and blaspheme His name and outright hate Him? that's not rational
UNCONDITIONALLY loving us, and that love never increasing or decreasing but always so strong and constant for each and every one of us, day in day out, before we were born, during our sinful lives, and after our deaths, until eternity? that's not rational.
and His love is amazing, wonderful, beautiful, and awesome. and yet, it's so SO irrational.
and i think that's so beautiful. it's like i've long said, that it's only logical for God's ways to seem illogical to us, because if we understood them and the logic behind them, then we'd be God, and we aren't. =)
i do love that all these beautiful paradoxical ideas come to mind when we think about God. because that just makes Him even more beautiful, and solidifies the fact that God is so complex and mysterious in so many ways (Because we have very, very small brains), and that is just... awesome, in the very original sense of the word (not the cheap way we use it these days).
so stop and stare at the wonder that is God. =) and be amazed at how His love just doesn't seem to make sense. =)
and give thanksgiving.