There is a love that loves to death. But there is another Love that loves from death; Love so potent it overcomes death. It loves the unlovable. It believes the physically, mentally, morally and spiritually dead will rise again. To a fallen mind, this Love is blind, blind to death. But in reality, it is not blind but fully aware. It loves the impossible because all things are possible with it.
This Love willingly died on the cross for all of humanity but was so potent that it spoiled death and came back to life, proving eternally that love is stronger than death, all forms of death. This Love died for its enemies so that they can become not just friends but family, if they want to.
I am grateful for this love but Love expects me to go beyond gratitude and become a lover, one that loves not just to death, but from death. There are many people and situations all around us that need to be loved from death.
Instead, most times we love only the lovable, we love the pretty, the ones already made, who have neither spot nor wrinkle. But the love that went to the cross and rose up again loved us when we were a mess, while we were yet sinners. We have not begun to display the power of the resurrection until we love those even among us, who are not made, who are offensive, who abuse us.
True love not only loves the living, but the dead, the hopeless, the impossible. Why?
True Love, God’s Love is not weak but Omnipotent, it is transformative, it is capable of resurrecting the dead. It is what we have, it (Compassion) is one of our core values as a church and the only proof that we know the resurrected Christ.
