Love as Transcendant and Primal

Pastor Jim Cymbala yesterday described love as both transcendent and primal.

What a beautiful picture.

As transcendent, God is love. It is beyond our greatest expectations and beyond our control. It surpasses any law that we could create and invades our space so that it own law may be obeyed. It is the ultimate expression of the only rule is that there is no rule in its flexibility and its boundary. Where it binds us, it frees us. Where it limits, it provides new opportunity. Where it strikes, it heals.

As primal it is part of our deepest instincts and needs. We cannot live without it. Indeed it controls us in many ways and yet we must endeavor to consciously search it out. It lurks in our unconscious and moves us in ways that we may never understand. It is beyond the question of why even as we seek it out. Our very means of continuance is driven by love even when the expression falls short of transcendent expectations.

And we are here in the middle of this expression of Love, neither transcendent nor primal.