“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the
unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when
everything seems hopeless.”
– G.K. Chesterton
And… Discuss.
Todd
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The message is simple. It is what Jesus did for us and it is what we must do for our fellow man. This is the mark of a Christ follwer. It is crazy and beautiful and scary and exhilarating. So worth the effort.
This quote reminds us just how Loving, Forgiving, Faithful, And Hopeful our lord is to love all of us.
It is much easier for me to hope and have faith than it is to love the unlovable and forgive those who keep on offending. It’s easier for me to love the unlovable as long as they have not been unlovable toward me. Perhaps it is easier for me to trust IN God than for me to trust God to work IN and through me. What I’m realizing more and more is the ugly depth of my self-obsession and my desperate need to submit more of myself to Him. Being a student of God’s love doesn’t swell my head with knowledge; it brings me to my knees to see how much more I have to learn and how far short I fall from loving like He does.
This quote makes me really think about what I am suppose to do. What our Lord wants us to do. I don’t know if I am right but I can forgive someone but I don’t have any thing else to do with that person. This quote is so much like our Lord. He forgives us for everything, and loves us even through we our unloveable. He also has the Hope for us to change when we think we are hopeless.
This quote reaches to the core of each word listed, as well as the core of the heart and soul. Often in the English language, at least the American English language (I don’t know much about British English), all of these words are used superficially and/or partially. I have used them with out their full meaning. For example, I have superficially said “I love ravioli” and “I love to run.” Using the word love in an “easy” way, I have said “I love my mom.” It is right and good to use the word love in that way, but the fuller meaning of the word would be to care for someone who didn’t show me any concern in return. I have said “I forgive you” to people who have showed remorse and somehow made amends with me, but have found it harder to forgive when someone does something wrong and doesn’t care or think it is wrong. I have said I have faith when it seemed like it would be impossible for things to go any other way, but it is much more difficult for me to say I have faith when every sense I have says it isn’t possible at all. I think that the real meaning of faith is when nothing points to something to happen or be. So, perhaps having faith in God doesn’t tap into the full, deep meaning of faith, because if you read the Bible, if you have experienced God, and spoken to others who have experienced Him, you will know that there is much evidence that He can and does do the impossible. Hmmm. Anyway, on to hope. I have said “I hope that it is warm out tomorrow,” knowing that there is a chance that there may be warm weather. That is not the full meaning of the word. The full meaning is when there is no chance that something could happen, similar to faith. So, again, hoping in God, in His provision, in His salvation, doesn’t tap into the depths of hope, because hoping in Him is a sure thing. Man, am I ever thankful for Jesus! He has kept us from having to experience the depths of despair, of the depths of impossibility, and the depths of hopelessness! Praise the Lamb who was slain and who lives forever! Glory to Jesus! Glory to God!