The Lord is sweet.  We’ve been told lies.  Some about boredom, some about judgment, some about the labors of service.  That is the nature of untruth, it seeks to entice, convince or create victims.  Victims, to join in the self construction serving the ego of them who must demonstrate an alternate explanation for the real.  Untruth, must by its very essence and nature deny the existence, correctness, perfection and reliance to which all reason and science conform upon the foundation of an unalterable, absolute Truth.  It must be revised at any cost, even through the recruitment, alienation, indoctrination and even demise of countless victims.  For without victims the lie must die, so by nature the lie must exist by stealing the life of each victim.

God has loved us, in a perfect sense.  He is really the only one who can truly love anyone, for He is the only one who knows our secret faults and our fault filled secrets.  I know them who are unlovable, don’t you?  Even I cannot believe sometimes that people love me, for they know so little of the entirety of my sinfulness, past, future, thought and action.  Yet, some do still, choosing to look past the hurt and pain I have left in my own wake, they still love me.  God, knows all of it.  By right, He alone should also be the one with perfect reason and choice to dislike, distrust even hate me in disgust.  Yet, He has chosen to give a perfect man’s life, voluntarily, for the sake of rescuing me from the nightmare to which I am complicit.  Just for the sake of loving me and allowing me to love Him.  Forget the obvious benefits, which are too lengthy to give proper voice in mere words.  Just look at that unlovable character we all admitted to knowing and then think of how he basks in, is illuminated by,completely transformed and made new by the simple fact of being an active recipient of the love of God, Almighty.  In a perfect sense, this is the stuff of music, poetry and higher thought.  That God who has every reason not to love us still chooses to love us without requirement or measure.

How then can we fall prey to paltry passion, based upon gain, expectation or sensory selection?  When behind it we know that, if they knew we would never have their love.  So it has never been love, but rather a performance based, approval centered, self gratifying dose of attention, momentary intimacy and needs based edification.  They cannot love me without the indwelling of God, telling them to forget and forgive my sin, rectifying my stench and unacceptability.  For I have earned death by my disobedience, idolatry and self service through sin, that is not a thing that humans accept.  Praise God that I have been cleansed and made anew into someone who can accept love without camouflage, veils or acceptable performance.  I may be loved for I am in Christ and so being I am free from the poisonous muck of my sin nature.  Free to be loved for the man I was truly intended to become.  I too, may love them, perfectly, as Christ first loved me.  That is the first taste of sweetness, whetting my soul to never thirst, never hunger, never concern.  In God’s Word and communion with His Spirit I find the sweetness of peace.

God is love.  Therefore to know love we must first know God.  To know God we must humbly accept His absolute truth regarding redemption, salvation and sanctification through Jesus and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.  Through Jesus Christ we will be reacquainted to God and know true love, only then are we capable of extending that love to ourselves and others.

Praise Him for His Righteous benevolence and love.  In Jesus Name.