Notes for30 April 2024

It obviously results from these words that we should not love any Man more than God. Does it mean that we should love God more that Men? I don’t think so! I think these words are saying we should stop perceiving love as something we can talk in terms of “more-less”. Who do I really love more: my father, my mother or my daughter? Foolish question, because I love each of them differently. Here is one question again, who does he Heavenly Father love more: His only-begotten Son or me? His Son? Then why He sends Him to suffer and die for my salvation.

Whilst we use the logic “more-less”, we apprehend love as emotion, as feeling, that can really be stronger or weaker. But Love isn’t emotion; it is interpersonal relation, thus all these relations will be different and incomparable between themselves, just as “Soft” and “green” are incomparable. We draw near to the way God loves when we renounce from this logic of “more-less”, we have His method of love in the basis of our own love to any one. Love to God and love to the neighbor turn out then to be two sides of one and the same medal.