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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 and are 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 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 its highest form and power will agree 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 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!