the furious longing of God
In today's world the world "love" gets tossed around so much it has lost much of it's meaning. I've been saying "I Love You" since I was a kid, I loved my parents, my siblings, my childhood girlfriend, etc... But did I really know what love was? Let's take that a step further, often in the church or christian circles we talk about "Unconditional Love", but what human really knows about unconditional love? We as humans can't love without condition, we want to think we can love unconditionally, but can we really?
Jesus commands us to love, and despirt our shortfallings it is still what we are called to do. Brennan Manning exposes God's love for us through stories, scripture, and thought. There was hardly a page in this book that I didn't have tears running down my cheeks in response to the love that God has for me. Regardless of who I am, what I've done, or what I'm doing, God continues to furiously long for me. I heard a definition of Unconditional Love once, it means to love, expecting nothing in return.
Later,
David
Jesus commands us to love, and despirt our shortfallings it is still what we are called to do. Brennan Manning exposes God's love for us through stories, scripture, and thought. There was hardly a page in this book that I didn't have tears running down my cheeks in response to the love that God has for me. Regardless of who I am, what I've done, or what I'm doing, God continues to furiously long for me. I heard a definition of Unconditional Love once, it means to love, expecting nothing in return.
Later,
David
posted by David at 11:36 PM
2 Comments:
I guess I'm behind in my reading. :) Are you referring to "The Ragamuffin Gospel." I'm sure you're aware he just published another book... I haven't read it.
This is supposed to be a review of his newest book "the furious longing of God". If you're interested I can bring it to you this weekend.
David
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