A person in love has one true concern. She is concerned about the person she loves. Everything else seems insignificant compared to her lover. All other things are unworthy of her time. But yet, no one wants someone who is completely absorbed in them, approving of their every move. You want a bit of a challenge. You want some ruffling of some feathers. You want to be told when you’re wrong, and you want your loves to fight to keep you.
I don’t know why we are made this way. Why we harbor such irrational inconsistencies. Why within man exists such paradox. God could’ve made us otherwise. He could’ve had it where all our contradictions were outward. Where our wrestling was external. Where conflict existed only between people, never within. But for some reason or other, God chose to make us harbor inside of us the capacity for self-contradiction. He gave us this potential to fight, to wrestle, to have to strain with ourselves in doing the right thing.
He made it so that we have two people within us. The old self, and the new. The flesh, and the spirit. And the desires of each do battle daily inside of us. Clashing among us, waging war within us. There is a prolonged conflict between the two selves. To do what is right, or to do what is wrong. To seek after God, or to seek after the things of this world. We are often posed with two choices. They are framed in such a way as to tempt us from Christ. To sway our affections from our one true love.
God is single-minded in his love for us. He is never tempted to stray. He remains faithful and steadfast always. There is never a doubt in his mind of how much he loves us because he has already demonstrated to us his great love for us. “If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”
He who did not spare his own Son. How will he not?
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