Getting Down to Grips With Love

‘God is Truth’ so we perceive in our soul. A gut feeling it is for me, suppose I say, and outside the ambit of reason. Nevertheless for another it may sound more emotional than rational. It is his view against mine. So be it.
In this Age of Technology and Instant Gratification, core values like faith, soul have become more synonymous with some New Age fads than blood, sweat and tears of a true believer. Our angst and frustration over our place in a world of eroding values are as real as in the early days of the Church. The only difference is that it is heresy and not orthodoxy that holds the whip now.
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Our faith cannot be much of faith if we are afraid of expressing when it is warranted.
It is so with soul. Our untested gut feelings must come up for breathing; each time how we put them to work in context of others we are filling in lungs of our inner life with oxygen.
Yes only through our exercise of faith in our life with the godly and ungodly we prove our love. We may be sidelined or teased for our faith in Jesus at the workplace. We need to accept the fools, saints, rascals and all sorts of men whose hiddensprings are unknown to us by the same all embracing sweep of Love first demonstrated by Jesus. By what motives are we ridiculed or belittled, we may not exactly understand. But we know Jesus was tested much more. Maybe they are vilifying us for the Jesus as presented in another age by the Church(Inquisition,Salem Witch trial etc.,) ‘Our fathers ate sour grapes. Should our teeth also be set on edge?’ Like the Romans who vilified the early Christians under the mistaken notion for the communion as ‘drinkers of blood and eating in secret flesh of children’ we may be treated as fools for believing in such redemptive love shown by Jesus.
But to love them who so callously treat us it must be really making the gorge rise in our throats. Isn’t it? When we are humiliated or trifled with we need to understand that we confess ‘God is Love’ and there is no way we can skip this part,- ‘running the gauntlet’ of unbelievers and scoffers, and yet say with a straight face,’ We love God?’
Why? If we believe Jesus Christ suffered much more than this when he came to reveal His Father’s love we ought to accept those who disagree with us as a necessary lesson in growing in love.
Jesus is our Firstborn in terms of all those who are rejected and unloved. He is our Representative Man. He also represents every Tom, Dick and Harry who now thinks of us as ridiculous lot.
benny