Love love.

Monday night we went as a group to a park where Pablo and Ingrid minister to the prostitutes. Tony was telling me that 80% of the tourists to Costa Rica come to be involved in the sex trade. And that Costa Rica is like Thailand of Central America. I went with the intention of being shown different areas of ministry where we can be the hands and the feet. To see what it looks like and to pray over the ministry that is already in place. What I did not expect was to feel such empathy for these people. I found myself sitting there and looking at my feet, wondering if anyone’s feet had stood in the exact same place as mine. If they had, what kind of hurt must have consumed them? It’s sad to think about how much of God’s love exists – an infinite amount, yet his love is the furthest thing from what anyone searches for. His love is right there, you can go left and find his love, or turn right and try to run away. And at the next crossroads you will be faced with the exact same situation. No matter how many times you choose to turn right he will always be there, on the left, waiting for you to choose his love.

God’s love. This week we are learning about the Character and Nature of God. No matter what point is made, it always comes back to God’s love. He did not need us; not our company or our help. He created us because he had so much love that he wanted to pour it out on us. Perfect love already existed within the trinity. Father, Spirit, and Son. Each a lover, each a beloved. His love is so immense there is no way for us to possibly comprehend and ever be able to love as deeply. We learned that there are two basic longings of the human soul: the need to love, and the need to be loved. God fulfills both of those in us. When I fall in love with God it is a result of him loving me first.