Are you Also a fool madly in love?

Ministering to people is one of the hardest thing there is in life!

One of the strangest and painful thing I have discovered is that with some people, the more I serve them, the more they demand from me. Meanwhile, on the other spectrum, there are some people whom I have served very little, but their appreciation is so great that I am embarrassed to receive their gratitude. How do you figure this? The people that should be most grateful are the least thankful, while with the people that I deserve the least gratitude are most appreciative. In some strange way, it is a balance. Who knew that people (you and I) could be so unpredictable? To such unpredictable and imbalance people, how is a pastor to minister to them?

In our last Sunday sermon, I dared to call our God “a fool madly in love.” Of course, I am completely wrong to call our God a fool. That is never true! But, hopelessly lost for appropriate words, searching for words that could help us grasp His truth, I shamefully called our God a fool, because that best described in human terms His actions towards us.

I mean how else can we describe our God who humbled Himself to stoop so low as to wear His flesh when He is in nature so glorious? How else can we describe an Almighty God, whom there is no equal in His power to helplessly hang on a cursed tree like a criminal? How else can we describe a God who not only overlooks but forgives and cleanses our sins, not just one small insult against Him, but literally hundreds, thousands, millions of sins, so grave, so serious that would tear anyone’s heart to pieces with pain and sorrow? I really did not know how else to describe our God than to call Him “a fool madly in love with us.”

Have you tasted the love of this Fool, your God? He humbled Himself in the flesh because of His love for you. And again, He sacrificed Himself on the cross because of His love for you. Please, if these words do not sting your heart, if these words do not tear your heart in shame and thankfulness, then your hearts have become calloused, they are turning into stones. But even so, we can still turn to our living God, for He can turn the stones into His living children, not just figuratively, but He actually made His people out of dust. So, turn to Him this day, this month, seek His face while He may be found. Cling to Him, and ask Him to pour His grace unto you so greatly, that you will radically, completely change. Your heart can change when His love fills your heart.

Do you know what is the proof of His love filling your heart? When you love other undeserving and unlovable people, as Christ has loved you. If our God has loved us like a fool madly in love, then it seems right that we too should learn to be like a fool madly in love with others, don’t you think? Yes indeed, it is my earnest prayer for myself and for each of you, may we also become “a fool madly in love with others.”