Love Makes Fools of Us All

11 March 2011

Love is a matter of the heart, and the heart takes its own course when it comes to love.

Love, by nature, is of free will – it forces not for it cannot be forced.

Thus, love must always be understood as a gift. It is an exchange of gifts when it is reciprocated. It is a willing offering when rejected.

To love is to be vulnerable. It is to risk. Take a shot at love and you are opening yourself to possible pains as well as possible joys.

Fool – our Heavenly Father is, for subjecting Himself to rejections and sorrows for mortals like us.

“Love makes fools of us all,” so Shakespeare sums it up well.

Love sure makes a fool of God. God’s ‘foolish love’ cost Christ’s life.

“Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.” (Song of Solomon 8:7)

God’s love cannot be quenched. God’s love propels him to give His Son. God’s gift of love was, and is still scorned by many.

Love hurts. It hurts God - BIG TIME.

Yet, the love of God also heals. It heals us.

It hurts God but ultimately heals us.

Those who love much will be hurt much.

Fools we are if we were to choose to love. But by loving many, many will be healed, - by God, through us.