Imagine that your Father gives you a credit card and says “spend it all”. I don’t want to see any of it left when I get back. Then you found out that the card has an unlimited balance. You actually can’t spend it all. You have unlimited resources. How would you spend? Stinginess and calculated decisions would go out the door. You wouldn’t have to decide between A and B. You could chose both. In a very real way this is how our Father tells us to dispense love. I’ve given you plenty. More than you could ever hold on to for yourself. You can love your neighbor, you can forgive 70 X 7, there’s enough for homosexuals*, rapists, the neighbor who’s dog craps in your yard, and also enough for the relative or friend that has betrayed you. And “I don’t want to see any of it when I get back”. But instead we like to pull out our personal debit card. With a limited balance and we’re always afraid to overdraw it. We’re very “wise” in how we chose to spend it. We’re frugal. We love the lovable.
Next time you’re presented with an opportunity to love, love like there’s an unlimited balance. Because there is.
*I do not think homsexuality OR rape falls on any worse spectrum of sin but know many people that do.
