We are unlovely. Yet God loves us. He refuses to leave us the way we are for these two reasons.
You see, God is perfect and wholly set apart from us. We are full of sin, even having a sinful nature. It is our instinct to go against God’s will. And we are completely unstable.
God, on the other hand, is pure. He can only do good, because He IS good. And He is unchanging.
For whatever reason, God decided He wanted to create us to lavish His love upon us. As I said before though, we are unlovely people.
Let me pause here to raise a few questions, just to get you to think about things more from God’s view. When you fall in love with someone, do you care about them more or less? I am assuming the answer is more. And when you fall in love with someone, do you just sit back and hope they have a happy life, or do you want the absolute best for them? I assume, once more, it is the latter you answer—you desire them to have the best life possible.
So this is sort of where God is at with us. He is not a lazy being who simply wants us to be happy. That would show that He doesn’t care to be invested in our lives, and I am absolutely convinced that when someone loves another person, they want to be a big part of that person’s life. God is the same. He cares deeply for us, and because of His love for us, He yearns for us to live the best life there is.
The problem arises with us being unlovely people, however. But God does not easily give up, but rather cares enough to give us opportunity to become loveable. By this I mean He allows or presents circumstances that will shape us and grow us into lovely beings. Love demands this, you know. Improvement into a loveable being is due to the deepest of love, not the lack of.
God does not simply want us to suffer by putting us through tough situations. He is trying to better us—so we may live the best life He has planned for us! But we cannot grow without pain; even coal is put under tons of pressure to become a diamond.
