
Many contemporary Christian songs, distorting Paul’s edict to husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church (Eph 5:25), depict the relationship between the Lord and his church as a romance. But the balance of scripture doesn’t cast the divine-human connection as a romantic relationship at all. The weight of scripture defines the relationship as a master-slave arrangement. Paul doesn’t refer to himself as a spouse, but as a slave (Rom 1:1). [The word translated ‘servant’ is the original Greek doulos which means ‘slave.’]
Christians who think themselves in a love relationship with God think too highly of themselves. We are simply not, in this life anyway, capable of matching the intensity and purity of love God has for us. It would be a woefully one sided relationship; and most of us don’t consider that love at all, but tragedy. God, because He is holy and perfect, will always love us way more than we love him. That’s just the way it is.
The bible reveals Jesus as Lord (Ph 2:11), not Lover, or Husband, or Best Friend. He is the Royal Master, not our Road Dawg.
I love God, but I’m not in love with Him. I wouldn’t insult Him that way.
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