Hard Love
Something I hear a lot lately is; I believe that God is love and love wouldn’t allow people to go to hell. It is perhaps a comforting platitude, but I don’t think it is particularly accurate. The thing is that love, real love, is hard. Real love does the hard things of life. It is real love that drives a husband to get up in the middle of the night with a crying child to allow his wife to sleep. It is real love that leads a woman to choose to make healthy meals for her family over McDonalds even knowing they will complain about her efforts. It is real love that corrects and properly disciplines a child in error so that he or she will grow into a productive adult. It is real self-love that drives a person to get up to exercise over sleeping in to keep his or her body healthy. Real love is what took Jesus to the cross and held him there for our sakes, talk about hard things! Many have fallen into the delusion that love means allowing anyone to do whatever an