Unrequited Love

We’ve heard the story before, its the plot of every ’80’s teen movie I ever watched - the outsider boy falls for the popular girl; pines for her from afar; creates a scheme to get her to notice and fall in love with him; against all odds, it works; outside pressures drive them apart; only to have the two seemingly star-crossed lovers end up together before the credits role.

This is God’s story. It all started with Adam and Eve. And then God, the outsider, still pining for our love makes a promise with us through Abraham and Sarah.

Taking Abraham outside God says, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That’s how many descendants you will have.” (Genesis 15:5, Contemporary English Version)

 Only the credits haven’t rolled just yet, and humanity continues to play hard to get. God continues to dream up ways for us to fall in love with God, even coming as Jesus Christ, "God with us." The story of God’s unrequited love for humanity continues.

As I hear God speak these words to me, “Look at the stars.” I hear Coldplay’s song Yellow playing in the background.

Look at the stars 
Look how they shine for you 
And everything you do 
Yeah, they were all yellow 

I came along 
I wrote a song for you 
And all the things you do 
And it was called 'Yellow' 

So then I took my time 
Oh what a thing to've done 
And it was all yellow 

Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones 
Turn into something beautiful 
D'you know? You know I love you so 
You know I love you so 

I swam across 
I jumped across for you 
Oh what a thing to do 
'Cause you were all yellow 

I drew a line 
I drew a line for you 
Oh what a thing to do 
And it was all yellow 

Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones 
Turn into something beautiful 
D'you know? For you I bleed myself dry 
For you I bleed myself dry 

It's true Look how they shine for you 
Look how they shine for you 
Look how they shine for 
Look how they shine for you 
Look how they shine for you 
Look how they shine 

Look at the stars 
Look how they shine for you 
And all the things that you do 

So, look out your window. God is holding a boombox, Say Anything style, playing a love song for you now, waiting for you to respond...