God lives and works today, and the Apostle
John says of him, God is love.
Love, however, longs to receive love in return,
for then it can share and give all
of itself.
Listen to today's meditation by Basilia Schlink called,
Jesus is Waiting for Our Love.
After the resurrection, the first question Jesus asked
his disciple Peter was, Do you love me?
This question tells us that we are allowed
to and supposed to love Jesus.
That is the most wonderful news I've ever
heard, for love makes us happy.
Think how happy we are when we really
love a person with a pure and deep
love.
But what is a person and a human
love compared to Jesus and his love?
After all, people can't completely satisfy us.
A bridegroom always waits for his bride to
come to him so that he can carry
on a dialogue of love with her.
In a quite different way from an earthly
bridegroom, and much more intensely, Jesus is yearning
to have fellowship with us and to hear
us speak words of love.
Jesus, in whom is contained the essence of
all love, he is waiting for us.
He wants to speak to us in our
hearts.
He yearns to have an intimate relationship of
love with us.
Yes, Jesus is waiting for our love.
As important to God as our obedience to
his commandments is, obedience is not enough.
For obedience doesn't necessarily yield the eternal divine
life.
Love does not necessarily pulsate through it.
Jesus is pulsating life and love, and he
wants to impart his nature to us.
Therefore, only our love, which stems from the
divine eternal life which he has granted to
us, is the proper response to his love
for us.
This love leads us to keep his commandments,
which are his wishes for us.
His love cannot rest until we love him
in return, and our hearts are filled with
one triumphant exclamation, Oh, none can be loved
as is Jesus.
It is a fact.
We are allowed to and can love Jesus.
And I've experienced that to love Jesus truly
means to love the most beautiful, glorious, and
greatest of the sons of men.
To love Jesus means to be endlessly rich
and happy.
Therefore, pray that the Lord will grant this
love to you, and that it will burn
in your heart like a bright flame.
Let God show you what is hindering this
love in your heart, and then remove every
hindrance.
Then the love of Jesus will incline itself
and fill your heart.
Oh, none can be loved as is Jesus.
None like him is found anywhere.
To see whom I love, whom I live
for, for no one with him can compare.
So all that I have, I will give
him.
I'll sacrifice all I hold dear.
My whole life to Jesus belong me.
My heart seeks my love to reveal.
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