HOW DOES GOD LOVE PEOPLE?

Have you ever loved another? Have you been in love with someone? Experiencing this most sought-after emotion is typically a pleasure, and we generally know when we feel it. Love has been defined and described in millions of ways, through poetry, song, and art. This feeling can be recognized in many ways by different people. They are all correct.

My blog titled “You Will Love The Lord,” published August 3, 2020, discusses what it means for a mortal to love an everlasting God. The Torah commands us to love God. An obligation implies a unique meaning of the word. It means we want to emulate God; that is: cultivate our spiritual nature.

The Bible says that God loves humankind. One might say: “Of course, God loves us. God created us so God could show love.” But love from God is not the same as love between two people. 

However one sees love on earth, it contains material content. Because we live in a physical universe. Everything corporeal has boundaries and limitations. That is a defining essence of our human existence. 

God conveying love to mortal human beings cannot incorporate the plethora of sensations applied to love between people. Endearment, affection, esteem, and attachment are part of an endless list describing human love. Every term ever used to portray the emotion of love arises from our worldly lives. This experience is unique to mortal beings. God, a 100% spiritual entity, is not of this world. Being 100% spiritual is a prerequisite for being Eternal, Infinite, and Omnipresent. God must remain this entity. Adding anything earthly to God modifies the Eternal and Infinite.

God does not seek to be like us. God cannot have any material characteristics. Corporeal factors insinuating themselves into God erases God’s 100% extracorporeal nature. God does not “want” that. 

We can bring spirituality into our lives. That helps us to become expansive and transcendent, repairing and completing our selves and the universe. But God cannot assume any confining characteristic. That forces contraction, which is contrary to the endless and inexhaustible consciousness that is God.

God is God because God transcends everything material. God exists in perfect harmony, unlimited by time or space. The purely spiritual world has no values. Everything is Truth. 

The problem for God is that everything is static homogeneity. God cannot be a mortal person, like George Burns in the movie “Oh, God,” and still be God. God cannot even use words, which are inherently infused with strictures and qualifications.

But we can offer the Deity something very special arising from our earthly powers. We exhibit contrast, contradiction, emotion, reasoning, intellectualism, fears, inconsistencies, and potential. We can grow, adapt, and interact. These are just a few of the many attributes emanating from the physical creation.

Does God “get” anything from what we mortals can offer? Yes.  Not bound by time, God knows all the possibilities for the earthly future. The actuality of attaining this future is a process observed by God. God has us to narrow the vision of potentialities. Creation contributes the earthly power to satisfy this oddity not seen in the harmonious existence of the Deity. This is “interesting” to God.

The following is God operating from the perspective of God.

There are seemingly infinite possible directions that each moment of life presents. God has infinite capacity to appreciate all possibilities as they arise. 

Every instant of the present has an unimaginable number of theoretical instants that can follow. God “knows” them all. The actual path taken defines that present and freezes it as the past. Once the single present is transformed into the single past, another array of potential futures materializes. Each of these futures are determined by the structure of the physical universe. This architecture is bounded in space and time. 

We have been given the instinct and power to bring the Extraordinary into the spectrum of futures associated with a present moment. This exceptional phenomenon results from humans making a choice to bridge our material realm with the spiritual. We do this by saturating our senses, quieting our thinking, and suppressing our emotions. By meditating on nothingness. Eliminating distractions opens the door for the soul to manifest itself in primary consciousness.

Bringing the Heavenly World into conjunction with the Earthly World is the most profound choice a person can make in life. This meditative process transcends the dominating forces of the senses. It accomplishes the ultimate goal of life: to complete and repair God’s physical creation by inviting the influence of the Heavenly powers. It is the peak gift from God. Our ability to do this is the highest expression of the love we receive from God. 

God loves us by giving us of God’s-self. God’s love is the wherewithal to add godliness to ourselves. To connect with Heavenly powers and bring them together with our Earthly powers. To wed the physical with the spiritual. Instead of our being simply mortal and material wanderers, love from God has added the eternal and infinite. Being both is something only we, not God, can do.