Ridiculous Love

Watching as a young boy curls up in his father's arms I'm suddenly struck by a facet of God that while understood is very poorly grasped. In this image here of the father and the son there is something else going on below the surface. The son shows an intimate trust of his father and the father shows this uncompromising, unfailing, ridiculous love. It is fascinating and phenomenal to think that we can care more about a small individual than ourselves. So many times we hear of stories that parents have risked or given their lives for their children. It is simply unfathomable. To be so incredibly in love that you would literally do anything for them. Then we see God and His Love. We by our very nature are prone to failure, we can't always be loving or caring. There are times when we do fail at loving others even our own family, but God doesn't. He is so drunk with love that He sent His son who was also part of Him to die for us. He had such a ridiculous love that He gave His life for us.

Its a simple fact to grasp, God loved us so He died for us, but how incredible is that love. He is the God of everything. He created the Heavens and the Earth. He told the galaxies how to work, He governs the universe and His love caused Him to choose torture and pain even when the very ones He was saving, spit upon Him. How hard is it for us to trust someone after we've been hurt. Romantically speaking it is incredibly difficult. You fall in love and then your heart is broken, you feel depressed and know you can't feel that way again. God has had His heart broken time and time again but He recklessly goes back for more. He is driven by this all-encompassing ridiculous Love that just won't let go. Its so incredible that no matter how much we think we understand about it, we still haven't scratched the surface. That is the kind of Love that I think everyone desires to have and at the same time trembles at the thought of it. A ridiculous, reckless, uncompromising, irrational kind of Love.