So many times the reason I love someone is not because of what I know about them, but because of what I do not know. Honestly most people we love in this life, well we really love the facade, or the image they wish to portray. Loving the guy you sit next to on the bus is cheap, you hardly know him, but loving the co-worker who screamed at you last week, now that a challenge. Loving an acquaintance is easy, but love becomes beautiful with the flaws. And that is the beauty of Christ's love, is that he sees our flaws.. all of them. Love becomes powerful with intimacy. The reason the phrase 'Jesus loves me' is so life changing is because Jesus knows me, the real me, the deepest, darkest corners of my heart.
Eph 3:18-19 "may we have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
So I can sit here and talk about Christ's love, but ultimately know I don't really understand. And that's ok. So I will leave behind the worthless and even the good in pursuit of the incomprehensible.
Php 3:8, "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ..."
