PIERCED BY THE WORD
Thirty-One Meditations for your Soul
Chapter One
How Strange and
Wonderful Is the
Love of Christ!
FOR MANY YEARS I HAVE SOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND HOW
the God-centeredness of God relates to His love for sinners like
us. Most people do not immediately see God's passion for the
glory of God as an act of love. One reason for this is that we
have absorbed the world's definition of love. It says: You are
loved when you are made much of.
The main problem with this definition of love is that when
you try to apply it to God's love for us, it distorts reality. God's
love for us is not mainly His making much of us, but His giving
us the ability to enjoy making much of Him forever. In other
words, God's love for us keeps God at the center. God's love for
us exalts His value and our satisfaction in it. If God's love made
us central and focused on our value, it would distract us from
what is most precious; namely, Himself. Love labors and suffers
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