Let’s think about the love of God this week.
There is nothing more profound than the fact that God really loves us, though flawed we are. It is possible to have forms of religion that marginalize the love of God, by putting other things at the center. The Pharisees were meticulous about many things, but they disregarded “the love of God” (Luke 11:42). God loves all people, even the ones that are difficult for us to care about. His love can transform us into persons who love others with the same unconditional love with which God has loved us.
Verse three of the hymn, “The Love of God” was found written on the wall of a mental institution.*
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill.
And every man a scribe by trade.
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky.
(*Research found that it had been copied from a poem written by Rabbi Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai in the year 1050. Some poor soul in a mental institution found these words to be great comfort for their hour of darkness.)
