Incarnate. Embodied in flesh. Given a bodily form. How can love become human? But He did. Jesus is love becoming human. His entire life was an embodiment of God’s love for us.
Jesus’ death on the cross, when the world attempted to rid itself of His radical ideas, His radical love, is remembered in its fullest ways today in the church – Good Friday. God, so wildly in love with me, with you.
What do we do when we’re wildly in love? We stay with the suffering elderly parent. We make a covenant to love another in marriage in good times and bad. We support and stay with the lost child who seems to have no place in the world. We take the long flight to be with grieving friends. We go to work to support loved ones who need us. We change the diapers and clean up the messes and the vomit, again and again. We give even when the love is unrequited, unearned.
And Jesus carried the cross and stayed on the cross when He didn’t have to. He says, “I see you, and I stay here so you know that you’re not alone. I’m recklessly, wildly in love with you too.”
God doing something so wild – to allow Jesus’ death so that our sins can be paid for. So we can be reconciled with Him. Even when we don’t understand or deserve it. Even when we don’t thank Him or receive His mercy. God doing something so reckless, so we can live with Him starting now, into eternity.
Wild and reckless love.
Father God, thank you for sending Jesus, your love incarnate, to save us from life without you and your wild, reckless love. I receive the mercy and grace you share with me through His death. Help me to live like His death and resurrection matter, every day. Let your love live in me and through me. I am so grateful, Jesus, and I pray in your name, Amen.
My Heart, My Home 