Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. It is easy to love the people far away, but it is not always easy to love those close to us. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.Įvery time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa Quotes We all hunger for love It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. She embodied compassion and unconditionality. You need to become like the one who loves you.For Valentine’s Day I am going to give you a series of Mother Theresa Quotes–the Goddess who understood more about love than any of us. You need a Vinedresser, a Shepherd, a Father, a Savior. You need to know, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” You need the promise to the repentant thief. You need the touch of life to the dead son of the widow of Nain. You need something better than unconditional love. This love is much, much, much better than unconditional! Perhaps we could call it “contraconditional” love.Ĭontrary to the conditions for knowing God’s blessing, He has blessed me because His Son fulfilled the conditions.Īnd now I can begin to change, not to earn love but because of love. He loves me enough to devote my life to renewing me in the image of Jesus. When you look closely, God’s love is very different from “unconditional positive regard,” the seedbed of contemporary notions of unconditional love. Unconditional love does sustain certain analogies to God’s love.īut why not start with the blazing sun rather than the flashlight? ![]() Saying “God’s love is unconditional love” is a bit like saying “The sun’s light at high noon is a flashlight in a blackout.”Ī dim bulb sustains certain analogies to the sun. ![]() In fact, humanist psychology even has a term for it: “unconditional positive regard” (Carl Rogers). The word “unconditional” may well express the welcome of God, but it does not well express the point of his welcome.įourth, “unconditional love” carries a load of cultural baggage, wedded to words like “tolerance, acceptance, affirmation, benign, okay,” and a philosophy that says love should not impose values, expectations, or beliefs on another. “Unconditional” often connotes “you’re okay.” But there is something wrong with you. Third, God’s love is more than conditional, for it is intended to change those who receive it. People who now use the word unconditional often communicate an acceptance neutered of this detailed, Christ-specific truth.” Powlison writes: “Unconditional love? No, something much better. Jesus Christ opened a way for us to experience the biblical love of God by fulfilling two conditions: a life of perfect obedience to the moral will of God, and a perfect substitutionary death on our behalf. Second, it’s not true that unmerited grace is strictly unconditional. First, Powlison argues that “there are more biblical and vivid ways to capture each of the four truths just stated.” “People currently employ a somewhat vague, abstract word-unconditional-when the Bible gives us more vivid and specific words, metaphors, and stories.”
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