Perfect Love With Perfect Understanding

It may not be anything we can ever get a good hold on until we have raised some children, but if we are ever to love well we must love "with understanding". Though we long to give and receive perfect love none of us is capable. With the fall of mankind, when sin entered our core our the hearts were separated from the divine and perfect heart of God, and we've struggled ever since to give and to receive love though we hunger for it more than any other thing. Face it, at best our love is flawed. We want to love better, be more compassionate, be more patient, forgive with ease without hanging on to some small part of unforgiveness (in case we need it to defend ourselves later) but, we feel and have proven incapable of loving perfectly. Because of this we have to love with the understanding that just as we are incapable of loving perfectly so is every one in every relationship we have ever been, or will ever be, in. Perhaps no where is this reality seen so easily as in the parent and child relationship. As parents we want to love well and we hope to be loved well in return. As children we love our parents but at times wonder why they can seem unfulfilled by the level of love we feel capable of giving back. So we see these two tensions present in the love between parents and children. If we are to be or become healthy persons, if we are to walk in Biblical love, then our love must be like God's love is toward us...love with understanding. However, if we are to find the capacity to love with understanding we have to return to the Source that doesn't strain to give or receive love, and that Source is the divine and perfect heart of God. It is there we find not a flawed love with a limited understanding, but perfect love with perfect understanding. Our Heavenly Father understands that because of sin we are incapable of loving perfectly, but that does not stop Him from loving us perfectly. God realizes that because we have fallen from the perfect condition He created us in we struggle to love & understand others just as they struggle to be love and be understood themselves. Our Father in heaven knows our weakness but He also knows our deepest yearnings. He knows perfectly well that we long to love better and understand more deeply. When we begin to move into the heart of God and find there a perfect heart that understand us thoroughly, we find that the hard ground of our own hearts is plowed up during our times with Him, and that we come out softer. God, with infinite love and total understanding has draw us closer to Himself and in the process has given us loves' capacities. Praise God. He enlarges us. How thankful we should be that God does not require of us what we are not able to producd in and of ourselves, but instead produces in us what He requires. Next time you find yourself lacking the love and understanding you need, take heart and go to God. He supplies us with everything we can ever need in His Son, Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul writing to the church in Colossae, makes this observation in chapter two, and verse ten. "We are complete in Him..." Amen! I lack nothing for there is nothing I can ever need that God can not pour into my life.