For God So Loved The World that He Gave His Only begotten Son to Get You!
To be truly in love with someone is not a generous act, it is the most supremely selfish act. It is about wanting the object of our affection with all of our heart, soul, body, and Spirit. We don’t woo them for them, we woo them for us, because more than our own life, we want their life, and we want them in our life at any cost! This is something about which Ayn Rand was correct. She called it the “Virtues of Selfishness.” There were problems with her understanding of how it works, but she made a very important point.
The point here is that Jesus not only knows us as we are, but He knows us as we are going to be in the pure light of His love. He is able to see us in that light now. About the best we can do for now is wander around in our failings, frustrations, weaknesses, selfishness, ugliness, flaws, meanness, nastiness, etc. – a lot of etc – all the stuff that defeats us in living out of our faith every day. This is all the stuff that drives us to the cross, every day and all day long.
While Jesus already knows all about all this garbage, it fades into insignificance in the light of the rest of how He sees us. To him we are altogether beautiful – we are HOT – divinely HOT in the highest and best sense of the expression. He can’t help Himself, He is just head over heels in love with us to the point of His own destruction, Isaiah 52:14. This is how He wants us to know how love is, and this is the love He wants us to know that He has for us. It is a REVELATION! It is a revelation that we cannot refuse. It is living in this revelation that grows the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. It is because He wants us that much!!! Faith in it’s highest form and power agrees with His assessment! Jesus is not a squanderer. He was the only SEED his Father had, and that Seed was meant to be spent on purchasing the only thing His Father was and is hoping for: You and me. We simply cannot refuse! We simply can’t fritter away His Love for us. This is not about Jesus’ generosity, It is about Jesus and His Father getting what they are after: You!
Love!
For more on this subject, see previous post: “My Time Has Not Yet Come“
Loving Like God 
Love true Love will not take no for an answer, yet true Love waits patiently until…yes is the answer.
“Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end”
As a single women, and only recently awakening to the possibility of finding a man to spend the rest of my life with, this is the absolute desire of my heart! I MUST have a man to love me as Christ loved the Church! One who may even have to refuse to take “no” for an answer. Who will pursue me, even as Christ pursued me. Thank you, Jim Puntney for saying it so well…”Love, true love will not take no for an answer, yet true love waits patiently until…yes is the answer”. The pure love of Christ! So grateful that Christ pursued me until I fell in love with Him!!