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Perfect Love

Psalm 62 is not normally considered the prototype amongst the passages looking at love, but read a bit further and decide for yourself.“1My soul finds rest in God alone; My salvation comes from him.2He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken. 11One thing God has spoken, Two things have I heard that you, O God, are strong, 12And that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done”.

Out of all the verses in this Psalm, these are the four that struck my fancy at a particular point in time and out of the four, verse 11 is the one that intrigued me the most. God is strong and God is loving. It just hit me like Wow , God is loving and God is strong!This psalm really speaks of God as a refuge and impels readers to place their trust and hope in God. Though not a prototypical passage on love, this made me question for the umpteenth time what is love? Surely, this feeling that human beings all yearn for, and at times, claim to feel toward each other, should be given another name. Maybe ‘like’ would suffice, because this ‘thing’ God has for us is not a feeling – here today and gone tomorrow. No! His love for us is strong because he is strong and because he is strong, he is love.
    You see Love in its purest sense is something everlasting and it is not conditioned. In God’s eyes ‘unrequited love’ is a misnomer because real Love - God’s Love, has no requirements, ultimatums or disclaimers, it just is Love. When I think of God’s Love I cringe and I am utterly embarrassed at the fact that I know nothing about Love. It seems from birth that we are taught to ‘love’ pretty things, pretty people, people who are nice to us, or is all this innate? This does after all seem to be universal.
   Shakespeare may never know how hard he hit the nail on the head when he said ‘love is blind’. In my mind’s eye this is a perfect one word description of God’s love for us - blind. I marvel and am dumbfounded at God’s love for us even after all the dirty, filthy and wicked deeds we commit and all the equally perverse things that we think. It’s as if God has blinded himself to these things by the way he forgives, but no, he sees and he still loves.
I am convinced that God’s love is greater than any man’s understanding of it and than any human’s ability to grasp it. It is perfect, it is strong!

 ~Love God,Live life,One Enkounter at a Time~

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