Meatloaf, so-called pejoratively by his childhood peers, sang, “I will do anything for love, but I won’t do that”.
His female accompaniment sarcastically sang two poignant lines, but excuse me quoting them verbatim: "You'll see that it's time to move on", and "You'll be screwing around".
That was 22 years ago, but now almost anything goes, be it in the name of love or otherwise.
Now people abandon their promises, at a whim. Incompatibility is a well-worn excuse, but is often a guise for infidelity and unrestrained itches. There is so much we will do to test the boundaries of a relationship.
I reflected then on the greatest love story of all, when God consented to be a “slob like us” (I quote the cynicism of another song, “what if God was one of us”). He dwelt among us to feel our pains, identify with our troubles and reach out to us.
There was only one aspect that was non-negotiable to Jesus – He would not violate His relationship with His father and the righteous standard so implied, because the point of His life was to reconcile us to God.
Other than that, He spent His lifetime saying, “I will do that”, as in: “I will bleed, take a nail, have my back plowed like a field, be crowned with thorns, hang in naked shame, die, go to hell, and give up my last possessions, for them”.
He goes further: “Though they disappoint or are unlovely to others, I will love them anyway even when I don’t quite like them. I will, if need be, stand between them and my Father, like a mother intervening between a man and his children.”
“I will pray for them ceaselessly. I will take them on with their warts and pimples, yet never disown one of them in life, death or judgment. I will do that, because that is what being a savior means”.
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