A Cost Analysis of Love

[386 words] God is love (1 John 4:8). In my opinion the best place to start an attempt to grasp something that is unfathomable is beginning with something we do understand: family. When our children were born, what joy they brought in our lives and oh, so many concerns. If we were the parents we should have been, we showered them with love and discipline. As they grew, we trained them to seek things that were good and right and taught them to avoid things that were bad and wrong. With varying degrees of success in those endeavors, we were deeply motivated. The superficial reason that is most often given is that they may avoid calamity and be successful in business and life. The real treasure–less often spoken of–is our desire that they return to us love. The proof in that pudding manifests itself in their doing what we taught…