Unconditional Love

What is the true meaning of Unconditional Love? We constantly read in the Word of God of how Jesus always talks about the unconditional love that our Father in Heaven lavishes out unto us. Jesus not only talks about this love but he proclaims it and really lives it out in the way he shows his love to the outcast of the world. Jesus comforted people that the world provoked. They were the prostitutes, leapers, beggars, the poor & so many more people. There were so many instances when he went out of his way to show his love for them.

But we also bear in mind that Jesus too had a reputation to upkeep. He went around the villages to heal many people. Surely the world would expect him to keep to the norms of society. And we all know that back then, people connected with God lived by the law. But Jesus came to change everything about how the world was functioning. Jesus came because of Love and because he wanted everyone to live in love.

But as I reflect on the way the world is today, Love is so absent in this world today. The very defining fact is how we'd rather choose to use our minds more than our hearts. Even in places where God should be most present, mainly in Church, I see & witness this to be so evident. It becomes an extremely sad truth. And we can see the very heart & love of Jesus when we decided who would be the Rock of His Church! He chose someone that I'd say was the closest human being to him in his life here on earth. But even this person, Simon Peter, failed him when he denied Jesus at a point when Jesus needed Peter the most. We also recall Peter promising Jesus that He loved him 3 times. And we also recall Peter denying Jesus 3 times. But Jesus forgave in love and chose Peter as his chosen one to start his Church in Love.

Isn't this unconditional love? We can learn so much from our Saviour, Jesus Christ, where we look past the faults of every child of God and love them in spite of their faults. Recently, I've been struggling with the amount of Politics that happens in our Church today. And as I reflect upon this, it becomes more and more evident that the true Love of Christ is missing so much! The unconditional Love that we receive from Christ as his gift to us can be so rarely found in so many of us.

But for me, where does this all lead to. It leads to call of Christ to bring forth unconditional love in Church for starters. We are called to go back into the very time when Peter built the Church of Jesus! We called to seriously question how much of the true Love of Jesus is within us, within our very hearts! Do we even realise how much Jesus loves us? And how are we being that love of Christ to others? Or has the ways of this judgmental world taken place in us? If this judgmental world has taken root in us rather than the Unconditional Love of Christ, then I think shouldn't deserve to call ourselves Servants for Christ!

It becomes an extremely sad truth that we are serving Jesus without having the very essence of Jesus in us, having the very essence of Jesus' Unconditional Love in us! For me, I too realise that I make mistakes, but I think the Love of Christ becomes ever so radiant when we are able to pick ourselves up and admit that we are weak and have fallen. Simply, we radiate the Love of Christ the most when we ourselves become vulnerable to this world. Christ becomes so visible in us when we are humble enough to ask for help for the people of God.

And this is something I've learnt over the past 2 months. And i'm so glad that my pride hasn't been big enough to stop me from asking for help for help from 2 people in my life that I love so much and hold extremely close to my heart, Estelle & Stephen. And I really praise God for this grace. God tore down every essence of strength He built in me over this year and the purpose of this, was how He wanted to test how big my pride was.

And this is why I still am so in love with this awesome Jesus! He never ever bores me out as I walk with him. And I think this past 2 months, serves to be a testimony for me that God is ever so much in control of my life. He is totally in control of my joys, pains & strength because he is the very source of it!

Unconditional Love can only happen when we go beyond ourselves & beyond our ability to love. Let's work together to stop the ways of the world to take root in our Lives and in the Bride of Christ, his church. Love will conquer everything especially the ways of the world!

Praise god for Unconditional Love! Let it reign in our hearts & this world!