Episode 3: Knowledge alone is not enough – Experiencing Love
James has been waiting eagerly for Peter’s second visit. He asks Peter to explain what he meant when he said that there is all the difference in the world between knowing that we are loved, and experiencing being loved. Peter describes how the experience of human love can change a person for the better. But he takes the analogy further, describing how God’s love can change us permanently for the better. James is left with the conviction that he has now to learn anew how to welcome God’s love into his life and how to start again at square one, to begin again to learn how to pray.
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Does this mean that having experienced human love somehow trains us to experience Divine love?
As fro me – Divine love is something so beautiful and overwhelming that no human love can ever surpass it. It is like swimming in the cool pool of living waters which has no end. Anneli
Dear Anneli,
As usual an incisive comment.
Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore what is deepest in us is God’s love. So it follows that in pure selfless human loving we experience something of the Divine. We have to learn to give selflessly, which enables us to receive the pureness of God’s love in ever greater measure.
This is why the Fathers of the church use the Song of Solomon in order to explain our love of god through human loving.