Understanding the Reckless Love of God

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Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? – Luke 15:4

It has been more than 2 years since I lost my beloved brother. I haven’t managed to recover fully from my grief and disappointment. I was always tempted to look at the past and regretted the things we have or haven’t done to save him. There were always times when I got angry over and over again about why God didn’t answer our prayers. I always feared if any of my family members got bitter toward God about what had happened to my brother.

Over a month ago I was feeling low again about life. I heard so much bad news happening around me. Many people faced challenges where there were many unanswered prayers and tragedy after the tragedy I heard from my friends. I felt heavy and sad. The recent death of my good friend’s husband brought my memory back about my grief for my late brother.

One night when I was in my worship time, feeling heavy, just want to listen to any worship songs in youtube’s list. One of the songs in the list was a song called Reckless Love by Cory Asbury. As I listened to the song, I just closed my eyes and tried to worship God with my heavy heart. I remembered my brother and missed him. in this particular youtube video, In the middle of the song, Cory Asbury stopped singing and read the word of God where Jesus asked If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?

Then Cory explained God’s reckless love to us as He’s utterly unconcerned with the consequences of His actions with regards to His own safety, comfort, and well-being. His love isn’t crafty or slick. It is not cunning or shrewd. His love bankrupted in heaven for all of us. His love doesn’t consider himself first. It is not selfish or self-serving. He doesn’t wonder what He’ll gain or lose by putting himself on the line. He simply put himself out there on the off chance that you and I might look back at Him and give Him that love in return. His love leaves the 99 to find the one every time. And to many practical adults, that’s a foolish concept. But finding that one lost sheep is and will always be supremely important. There is no plan B with the love of God.

After hearing Cory’s explanation with my closed eyes, suddenly God spoke to me out loud saying, “This is my reckless love for Reggy. I put myself at risk just to save him. I took a risk to be misunderstood by you and your family and Reggy’s family. There would be a chance that your family will leave me for what I have done but there was no other plan for me to save him. Reggy was that one sheep. I had to leave you, the 99 in order for me to save him.

Hearing him telling these, I couldn’t stop my tears. All this time I never knew God’s heart. All I can see was He has let me down, He disappointed me, and He didn’t want to help us. I failed to understand His very heart. It is not about me or my family. It is all about Him and my brother! When he spoke to me about this, I felt like a big relief came to my heart. I understand that He had to do what He had to do to save my brother.

I then prayed for His reckless love towards all my family and for Reggy’s wife’s family to save us all from any disappointment from God.

From this, I learned that nothing happened in our lives that is outside His love for us. We might not understand why things happened to us but at least we try to trust His reckless love for us.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you are encouraged.

Comments

  1. Pit Djan3 August 2022 at 04:10

    Very inspiring.. Thank you so much Merry..🙏💖🙏
    It's true.. extremely important to keep pursuing Him until He reveals His heart.👍💖🙌🙏

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