Many of us have been told how all of God's attributes are present equally at all times and in all ways. Yet if we look way back, the emphasis was always on Love first. The songs like "Jesus Loves Me" and so many others echoed that theme. The first verse many of us learned (John 3:16) is built on the idea that God, in his Love, did something miraculous, redemptive and enduring. Yet as we "matured" we moved on to more emphasis on holiness, omnipotence and the rest. So I have a question ... when did we lose the wonder we had as children that had us focus on Love first?I think it's time to come back to Love as the very foundation. It's time to remember all those songs we sang as children and that verse we all have come to blithely rattle off - the one that says God loved us so much that he laid aside all other aspects and standards he held dear and me his standards by himself on our behalf. That's what I mean when I say Love is the foundation.
I've come to a point where I think I'm seeing this more clearly again. Love really is the highest order - the most prevalent of God's attributes. Everything else flows from it, is built on it. He does nothing outside of the immense provision of his own Love. He calls himself Love so we can get a glimmer of why he does what he does. And that's a marvelous thing to consider.
The Crooked Path will bend and turn, rise and fall, grow smooth and rocky at different times. Through all of that, the one thing I can rely on over anything else is the Love of God. It is truly boundless as time itself.
