Love requires a response. Love places a burden on us. It does not force us, or it would not be love. Love moves us. We want to do something in response; that is love’s demand. It calls receivers to be givers. It calls the disinterested to be interested. It calls bystanders to be participants. It demands my whole life to be given back to God in service and worship. Such amazing love calls for my all and my best.
“For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NRSV)
