December 24, 2017 · Romans 8:38–39

Morning Reflection - Love of Christ - Romans 8:34-39

“It's basically this idea that love is an adaptation that helps us learn to survive, protect our pack. Love is some type of, it's an animal invention. But the Bible tells us that love comes way before us. Love is at the beginning. Love starts at God. Love is God before anything created or existed. Love was there. Love is the beginning and it is the end. Before there was time and space, there was love. This is why Christian theology is so unique because it states that God is one and yet somehow in his mystery, he's three persons. That God is somehow actually love, a relationship. God is the love of the Father and the Son and the Spirit all as one, and this love is so overwhelming. It's so powerful. This God loves so much that it overflow beyond itself and it float out into creation. He loves so much that he wanted to create things that he could love and that's why we exist. We live because God loves us and he wanted to love. God didn't have to create, but he loves to create. This whole universe is just brimming with love, and so the love that you feel in your heart, it's not just some invention from chemicals or natural history, these are just things that help us access God, access, love. God loves us so much that he decided to create other creatures and he said, I'm going to portal my love on them. The problem was that some of these creatures decided they'd rather love themselves. If love is defined as a good will or wanting good for the other, as soon as these creatures decide to point their love inward at themselves, this outward focus love got corrupted.”