I have been reading this book called, 'The Furious Longing of God,' which has helped me see the value and magnitude of God's love. We often forget or look over what love, especially the love of God really is. I have been reminded at how the love of our Father must transform us, in order that we might love and respect others the way the Father loves us.
Here is an exerpt from Brennan Manning...
'Jesus said you are to love others the way I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguised gift of yourself; a love that forgives seventy times seven, that keeps no score of wrong doing. Jesus said this, this love, is the one criterion, the sole norm, the standard of discipleship in the new Israel of God. He said youre going to be identified as his disciples, not because of your church going, Bible-toting, or song-singing. No, you'll be identified as His by one sign only: the deep and delicate respect for one another, the cordial love impregnated with reverence for the sacred dimension of the human personality because of the mysterious substitution of Christ for the Christian.'
We often forget how crucial this is... we will be known by the way that we love and treat one another!
