I have been ruminating over the love and justice of God and the question of Electing Love. It seems to me that we humans tend to apply judicial standards to Gods love and thus question its fairness and apply relational standards to Gods justice and question its being loving. We neither see our folly nor our blindness in this matter, for we dont realize that we are in fact blind. For we are so by nature and if none of us has ever seen apart from Gods mercy, against what standard are we to measure our blindness or folly? But this is in fact such a glaring disability when we examine love judicially. Tell me, which man has ever been thought of being unfair for loving his wife to the exclusion of others? Or which Judge can be called unloving for passing the right sentence on an offender? You see, we do not think it wise to confuse these categories with men, yet we do that with God. How many people/ persons does God have to love to show that he is indeed loving? Thats right! One! Just one! Yet He showers this love on countless millions. In fact, the magnitude of this love is displayed, not in the number of people he chose to love; but the kind of people he chose to love- sinners and rebels of the worst kind! That is what is so amazing about Gods love. Think of Hosea, the prophet whose love life with his harlot of a wife - Gomer, was an object lesson to Israel on the amazing love of God! Imagine the quality of love shown by this prophet to his wandering wife. His love is amazing not because of the number of harlots he loved, but that the wife he loved was a harlot. The beauty of love is not in its wideness, but in its depth and its quality. What about Justice? It cannot be justice if it is overlooked even at the slightest. With Justice, we speak of unfairness and we would be right to do so, if we perceive that partiality is shown to even one person.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:31:18 +0000
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