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Will Your Love Be Unrequited?

My Lord, my God, it was out of love that you created the universe and all that it holds with a plan to create man to share the greatness of your love with. It was out of your love over the centuries that you have challenged and corrected men to walk in love instead of hate and anger. It was out of love that you gave the word of your law to Moses for men to obey because it would allow men to live in peace and prosper together without the danger of falling into acts that would destroy love or violate the love of their God. You have commanded that men display their love for one another in dealing fairly and justly with one another in a manner that yields fertile soil in the hearts of men so that love can grow.

My heart breaks for the shame of all men, that you were compelled by their lack to command that all men should love the Lord their God with all their heart and all their soul and all their strength. You should never have been allowed the motivation to even ask, for there is none more worthy. All that you have done for men was done out of the love of your heart and by itself, it demands love in return without request. There is no justice to you my Lord in your love unrequited. My Father, where is the outer boundry of your love for the hearts of ungrateful men that you have created? For even the sacrifice of your very own blamess son leaves some still unrepentant, but yet your patience still exists. You wait with a hopeful longing heart for those wandering in the darkness to respond to your hearts cry, in hopes that they may yet discover that they are the treasure of your heart.

Teach me my Lord what it means to love the Lord My God with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength that I may fully respond to your love in the way your heart desires. I can never do full justice to your love my Lord for I am only a man, but my longing is to give all that I can to the heart that loves my own. Does it mean that I should love you enough to love all that your heart cries out for? Does it mean that I should care and have great concern for that which breaks your heart? Does it mean that I find great joy in that which brings joy to your heart? Does it mean that I would have the depth of sincereity to suffer my Lord for that which you treasure? That I would labor to bring to your heart the things that give you pleasure. As a man, does it not mean that I would stand to protect that which you hold sacred without reservation? Is there any shame among men to great to bear for the love of my Lord or any measure of worship to great or even worthy to be deserved by you my God?

When I say that I love you, what is to be the depth of my sincerity and my passion Lord? Is it only as deep as the sound of the words that pass my lips? Or is it something that moves my heart deeply to walk beyond my worldly comfort to yield in all things to your desire? In response to the sacrifice of your own son out of love for me, what sacrifice could you ask of me that would be more worthy in return? If I should, as spoken by your son, in the greatest depths of love, be willing to lay down my life for another, then my Lord what should my heart be willing to do for you?

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