God thought of you, and the thought of you so utterly delighted Him that He created you. That is why you were made. You are His handiwork, a masterpiece of His art.
God does not love generically. He loves you uniquely, individually, unequivocally. He knows your name, He knows all about you – your dreams, your hopes, your sorrows. He loves you from the bottom of His Heart – and He is GOD, so there is no bottom to His Heart – it is fathomless! He loves you so much that He can’t take His eyes off you. Think of it. Each one of us is always held within the loving gaze of God, no matter what our mood or behavior. God sees us with the eyes of love. The question is: will we make eye contact with Him?
We all know intellectually that God is Love. The logical implication, then, is that God is a lover – not a CEO, a manager, an accountant, an owner, but a lover. He wants to be with us. He doesn’t care about our perfect performance – what He wants is our heart. He thirsts for our love, and He doesn’t thirst for our love generically; He thirsts for the unique love that you alone can give Him. Your love matters to God. But we need to clearly understand that God’s love is not a mere feeling or attitude inside God. It is an objective reality that causes a very real effect outside God and within us.
God’s love is as objective as light. When we walked into the Cathedral this morning, the plaza was dark. While we were inside, dawn came and there was a real transformation of the plaza. When the sun crested the horizon and we felt its warmth on our bodies, there was a very real objective change in us. God’s love is an objective reality. It effects an objective transformation in us – not just a mere adjustment in our subjective feeling or attitude. Something changes in our objective being.
He does not just restore a person, a relationship, a business to its original beauty but He leaves His own fingerprints, His own indelible mark on His handiwork and the result is infinitely more beautiful than had He never reworked it. That is Who He is. It is what He does. It doesn’t even matter how we got to where we are. The only thing that matters is that we allow Him to gather all the pieces and that we trust Him and allow Him to do His transformative work, even if we don’t understand what He is doing.
