The love does not seek its interest (continued)

"And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth ; and we have seen his glory, a glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father" (John 1:14).

Jesus Christ paid a great price to become flesh. He dwelt in the glory of the Father in absolute happiness. I have a missionary friend who died clinically and who was in Heaven. She saw the sun on the side and it was dirty, as it is today. And on the horizon, she saw a light so bright and sparkling as she had never seen here below. It was Jesus. She joined him and spoke to him. Jesus told her that her work was not finished on Earth and she saw herself coming back through her nostrils and entering her body again. She felt like she was getting rotten, and she was crying. The doctors thought she was crying with pain, but she was crying to be back "in this rotten body," as she described it after her experience in Heaven.

God's interests are such that he has decided to become flesh and to enter a body such as ours. A rotten body. And his interests are greater than those of men, which is why he allows us to leave on earth to do his works and to love. He gives us the breath of life so that we do not live for ourselves anymore. "For the love of Christ urges us, because we believe that if only one is dead for all, all are dead ; and that he died for all, that those who live may live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them" (2 Corinthians 5: 14-15).

The love does not seek its interest. We are dead, and our new life must be lived in love that does not seek its interest. We must therefore seek the interests of God. And his greatest interest is in saving lost humanity, "for the Son of Man came to save what was lost" (Matthew 18:11).

Jeremy Sourdril