The Love of God for Us
“God’s love for us is said to be excessive and foolish. St. Paul defines God’s love for us as an ‘excess’ since it infinitely exceeds and surpasses what reason can comprehend and the heart can desire. Relative to us, it is excessive but not in itself. St. Paul also calls it, and without exaggeration, ‘foolishness’ because this love has in some way overturned the natural relationship of God toward the creature. In Christ He died in place of the creature who had become His enemy. Such a thing is inconceivable foolishness for natural reason. Aptly then is it defined as ‘the foolishness of the Cross’ and such ‘foolishness’ is reparation for that other foolishness which is sin. We should meditate upon this excess of love. True love whereby another being is loved, not only for one’s own self-interest but for the other being itself, is not only a passive love but is also active. It is not a simple emotional satisfaction that is born at the sight of a pleasing object, but rather an effective a...
