on love part III

"To love and to be loved only serves mutually to render this existence more concrete, more constantly present to the mind. But it should be present as the source of our thoughts, not as their object. If there are grounds for wishing to be understood, it is not for ourselves but for the other, in order that we may exist for him."

Love in its purity has no chance to be prejudice. To love one and to deprive the other is no way to live according to scripture. Love permeates all things as its root derives from God alone, we cannot choose the objects of our love, but simply choose to love or not to love. By choosing love and the objects that receive it, we are in a sense empowering ourselves with the ability to love [purely]. This is an extension of our possessiveness. We are pulled in the direction of objectification. This is gravity- a battleground for Grace to win out. And as it is written, Grace will win out.

The question then arises however, when we must not choose the objects of our love, how can we then 'hate' what is evil. My response to this is when our love is pure and deriving from God alone, evil is stripped of its power and ceases to have any authority.

Evil is that which has not the capacity to receive love for love in its fullness is a mutual, reciprocal relationship. (e.g. non-christians know not, and by extension, have not pure love.) The moment reciprocity ceases, gravity, flesh, temptation, sin, and evil is given authority. God's love will continue pour upon us, but man in his self-centered universe can exist for an entire lifetime and not 'receive' and ounce of that love. Again, the tragedy of love as imitation.