L’amour de Dieu est folie
L’amour de Dieu est folie, is French for, the love is God is folly, foolishness.
Read Ephesians 1:4, “For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.” Wait, what? He chose us?! You’re telling me that God chose us! Despite all of our wretched, horrible, bitter, selfish, evil and corrupt ways Father loves us, He died for us and He chose us to be with Him.
Do you have an enemy? Most of us don’t. Think about the person who in your life who caused you the most pain. Do you love them? Would you give up your life for them?
In human terms it doesn’t make sense. How could He love us when we curse Him, we sin, we murder, we fornicate and worship idols like money, sex and work? Yet He does! Like the song above says, “If grace is an ocean we are all sinking.”
I am humbled by the love of God. It’s foolish. It’s crazy and illogical. Yet it’s real and powerful. The even greater news is that you can know it too. It’s free for everyone! Later in Ephesians 2:8 Paul writes a famous verse, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Do you see that? Just have faith in God, receive His gift. There is nothing we can ever do to redeem the despicable acts we’ve done. Yet through His grace we can be saved. Like Kim says is the song, we can be changed!
Attempting to understand all this is like an ant attempting to understand a human. It will never happen. What can happen is that if you unlearn everything you’ve learned, you can know and experience a love that transcends. What do you have to lose?
