THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT - The Love of God (a blogpost for a sermon to be preached on November 9, 2014)

Love is mystery.  It is not the rational determination of proper compatibility (not usually).  It is more difficult to define.  It is more amorphous.  It is more confusing.  It is more hidden.  It is more complex.  It is more complicated.  It is more . . . 

People wind up together for all sorts of reasons.  Sometime it's about careers.  Somtime it's about family.  Sometime it's about football.  Sometime it's about music.  Sometime it's about a chance encounter.  Sometime it's about . . . well, sometimes you can't even figure it out.

The love of God has me more perplexed still.  I have nothing to offer God in this love affair.  I have no latent talent, no promising career, no cosmic charisma, no unbroken fidelity.  I have nothing.  Nothing to offer the God of the universe in exchange for His love.  Nothing.

Yet, He loves me still.

9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9, 10)