It’s either I’m too impressionable, or there’s really something inherently fascinating about this whole free will thing.
Try and think about it.
What other set-up is available to the Lord to ensure that His creatures would love Him back?
I am belaboring myself, but this is what I think, if the Lord were like some other people, and He wanted to bask in His glory by creating a world of people who never fought with each other, of people who never committed crimes or people who never thought a single bad thought, what satisfaction would be derived from that? People would ‘love’ the Lord because that was what they were made to do, but their inability to do any other thing reeks of a convoluted kind of prison where you HAD to love the Lord because You had no choice, because you were made incapable of sin.
On the other hand, if the Lord made a world of people who could either choose to sin, or choose to love him, would He not feel much happier if there was a single soul looking up at Him, than a score of mindless spineless people who are good to each other because they had no choice?
That’s the magic of it. Despite opening yourself up for attacks, for hosts of human beings who would get drunk, kill, smoke, drive recklessly, curse, cheat, lie, tell disgusting, green jokes, shout, spend beyond their means, gossip, etc. which are all abominations to the Perfect Self which we are all capable of becoming if only, if only, we can love Him back, entitling the human race to free will is still the best set-up ever conceivable. Because for every single person who can still manage to take a moment or two to talk to Him, for every single soul who feels a slight trace of guilt at listening in on somebody backstabbing somebody, for every single act of compassion that mankind is capable of exhibiting, there is an utterly happy, grateful, sigh of relief from a God who would rather get hurt over and over again than be given a thousand hymns of praise from a people who knew no other thing.
The choice to love the Lord, to repeatedly choose Him over ourselves, over and over again, getting nearer and nearer to that everlasting kind of happiness which is the reward we get for choosing to do the right thing, to be able to show Him everyday, every minute of our lives, how cool we think He is for putting us here, for creating us, to love Him is the grandest privilege ever given to the human race.


Which is why, I think, the single unexplainable phenomenon in this world is love. It makes us powerful and vulnerable, happy and stupid, delirious and depressed, all at the same time. It defies logic. It’s the fullest manifestation of free will I can come up with. It’s the reason everybody’s here. And even better than saying God is lovable, is to realize, within the limits of our puny imaginations, that God is Love.
That's all and good night.