Love

Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it up carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

-CS Lewis

After reading this quote, Tim Keller goes on to talk about how when you're in love, it's selfless and sacrificial and the like. You must mutually adjust to your partner and give up your own pride for the other. It has to be a reciprocation, a two-way love. So how can you have a loving relationship with God? You might think, it is just one way, God's way since He is a divine being with all the power and authority. "I must adjust to God--there is no way that God could adjust to and serve me." Don't forget what Christ has done! He completely adjusted to us by being fully human (while being fully God), and He sacrificed everything for us. If love is a two-way reciprocation of love, are we doing our part in the relationship?

-Simon