Love We Can't Explain

It has been awhile since I have written anything just because of life. Life has been so crazy with school and Job (starting two new ministry days, two more messages a week) but it has all been a blast. I cannot fill you in on everything that has been happening; in fact, I should not even be filling you in right now. I should be going over some notes, but this idea has just popped in my mind and I thought I would share it because it is mind blowing for me.

I have been pretty insightful and really thinking deep about random things that I believe God has put on my mind and heart. Here is one of those things.

So I am the youth guy at a church and I just had my first successful parents night. (Not that I have had several parent nights and they were not successful, but more so I had my first parents night and it was a success :-D) I was up there talking to all these parents and students, and I wanted to let them know that I really cared about their kids. I planned on telling them I cared, which I really do, but right when I told them that I truly cared and loved their kids, I could not tell them why.


I could not tell them why, not because I was nervous or just could not think but because I really did not know why, but I do. After everything was said and done the thought of why do I care about these kids still lingered. I have had a few days to think about it and these are some of my thoughts.

I should not care a love these kids as I do. I mean before I started I was warned about some kids, and too look out for some trouble makers, but when I jumped into the position I’m in now, I immediately fell in love with every one of the kids, even after I got to know them lol (little joke). I cannot tell you why I love them or why I would do almost anything for them, but I can tell you that I truly care and love these kids.

I started to think that this is how the love of Christ must be on some minuscule level. I mean when you think about it why should God love us, we are a class full of trouble makers who love to disobey, not listen, and do our own things, and yet he can’t help but go to the ends of the earth for us. We are not his biological kids but he loves us just the same. It is probably something God cannot explain to us (or maybe he can) but all he can say is that He loves us.

It is a weird relationship and the more I think about it the more it continues to blow my mind. The students I have, I want to grow close to them, I want to see them succeed, I want them to be loved, but the truth is that some students might not want to grow close to me, they might not want to be loved by me, they might not want anything to do with me. Even after knowing, they might not want any part of me mixed in their life I still love them and would do anything for them.

The more I think about it, the more I see the awesomeness of God's relationship toward His creation and am so grateful for the cross. God simply loves us. We do not understand why and maybe He cannot communicate why, but all we have to understand is that, HE JUST LOVES US.