God is Love

I believe when you look at any theological question, the answer will and must always start with God is Love. God is Love and Love is God. Where there is Love, there is God and vice versa. I also think, if we look for the answers to life, the questions are theological in nature. What problems do we have? What are the questions we have the hardest time with? All can be answered with God is Love.

My biggest struggle is to know what is my purpose in this life. I am constantly working to not fail, to not screw up, to do everything I can to succeed. At least, I try to, but because I do not recognize my fragility and my limitations, rather, because I do not accept who I am, I see only failure.

I am a child of God, created out of Love by God. Since God is Love, everything He does is out of Love and so the act of creating me, is an act of Love. As with humans, what is created in Love? Children. My identity is rooted in my childhood of God, but this is not all. I am created in the Love of God and I have been formed in the Love of God. My soul has tasted the Love of God, and nothing I have now compares to this Love.

So, what I am searching is the Love of God. My need to belong, to find peace, to be perfect, to find love, to find success, to find happiness, joy, peace, strength, all of it is found in the Love of God. I see failure because I do not see the Love God has for me. If, I know God is my Father, and my Lover, and I look to Him, and give myself to Him, then everything I am is completed by him. In my success, He brings forth the fruit. In my hopes, He brings forth reality. In my joy, He brings forth chances to share. In my sin, He brings forth forgiveness. In my failures, He brings forth lessons for me and those around me. “All things work for good for those who Love Him and are called according to His purpose.”

He is my Father, so why do I worry? Why do I wonder what I will do next? Why do I beat my self for every mistake I make? Why do I feel alone? Why do I feel anger, fear, greed, sloth, lust, pain, bitterness, chaos, confusion, etc? Because I have not yet been able to fully experience His love. You know what is awesome though? He knows, and all He says is “I love you, keep going, I am with you and I will never leave you.”

This is our God, our Father and Mother, our Lover.

Father God, I am in Your hands now. All of me. I know you have surrounded me by Your wondeful Love. I do not feel it and I suffer because of it. Yet You who have created the Heavens and the Earth knows this and You are patient with me. You say “my grace is sufficient for you, for strength is made perfect in weakness.” Father, Son and Spirit, to You I offer myself and this world. Complete us God, Enlighten Us, and Fill us with your Love. May we be every burning with Your Love and allow us the grace to trust in You. We are Yours, now and forever. Amen.