I wrote that many years ago... poetry written as a love-sick teenager, a meditation on unrequited love. Sigh. Comets aren't stars anyway, just ice and dust, and the tail is just a bunch of hot air. Kind of what I later learned about the 'object' of my unrequited love ;)
But this posting is not about unrequited love. Not about comets either... This posting is about unconditional love. It's about Easter.
In his book Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus illustrates God's love for us in a unique way... He says, "I once met a girl... and I fell in love. I pursued her with my love and pursued her with my love until I felt my love had captured her heart. So I asked her to be my wife, and she said no."
He continues... "I was unrelenting and asked her again, pursuing her with my love, and I pursued her with my love until she said yes... I did not send my brother, nor did I send a friend. For in issues of love, you must go yourself.
This is the very story of God: He pursues you with His love and pursues you with His love, and you have perhaps not said yes. And even if you reject His love, He pursues you ever still... for in issues of love, you must go yourself.
And so God has come. This is the story of Jesus, that God has walked among us and He pursues us with His love. He is very familiar with rejection but is undeterred. And He is... still pursuing you with His love."
When we were separated from His love, He became the way back to Him. McManus says, "God is not passive, for love is never passive, but always passionate; and passion always leads to action."
He came; He gave; He died; He rose; He lives. Unconditional love in the face of unrequited love. Happy Easter.
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