like a child reaching out
we talked today in my theology class about being worthy basically. we discussed the different kinds of love and Agape was one of them. Agape is the unconditional love of God. my teacher was telling us about one of our many "human conditions" and how one of them is that we naturally put other things before God, and that we don't stop and think "what would God think of this right now?" well first of all, i really like my teacher, and typically i agree with everything he says, but i didn't agree with this. i mean, i do stop and think or at least make an effort to. but i understood what he meant after he explained that when we feel this way it is Sin as an attitude. so then it made more sense and i don't think he meant applied to everyone. anyway, he continued to say that God loves us despite what we are, especially when we sin. he told us that because of our natural inclination toward Sin, it is often hard to love God above everything else all the time but how unconditional love works is that we don't have to. It was said that the Agape love is just us having to accept the peace and love God gives us and of course we should love Him back, but our primary thing is that the Love God gives us is a gift and we are just supposed to accept it. it is not earned, it is given. all we simply have to do to receive it, is reach out our hands like a child. i thought that was a nice thought. that something so valuable and yet so priceless and such a "Hot Commodity" (who doesn't want unconditional love?) is so easily accessible to me just for being me...virtually nothing more than a weak and unworthy human just struggling to love God. God is so generous and good!!
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