What is love? Love is God. God is the purest form of love. As humans, we are incapable of loving in the way that God loves us. He sees us as we are and loves us still. He sees our imperfections, flaws, and mistakes. He sees our sinful nature; how easily we can fall into sin. He sees our selfishness, our pride, our unyielding nature, our dishonesty (not only the lies we tell those around us, but the lies we tell ourselves), our ungratefulness, our wastefulness, our vanity, our unforgiving nature. He sees our hunger for earthly desires and our thirst for human approval/praise. After seeing all of this, He still loves humanity. His love is so infinite, it is incomprehensible. Romans 3:10 says, “…There is no one righteous, not even one;” After seeing humanity as it was/is, He could have chosen not to love us. But, instead “..God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.” -1John 4:9  God loves us as we are and not as we should be. Sure, He has plans for us and is still working on us. “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” As humans here on earth, we are and will always be a work in progress. The main point here is: He knows we are imperfect humans. But, he loves us still. In this way, He sets for us the perfect example of love.

1 John 4:11-12 says, “…since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.” May God give us His heart, so that we can love as He does. Only then, would we truly know what love is.

Lord, please help us to love as You do. As we see others in their imperfections, please help us to love them still. Fill our hearts with Your infinite love. Amen.