God's Creative Love

I was working on a sermon and was thinking of using a quote from Dr. Martin Luther regarding the theology of the cross as compared with the theology of glory. This took me to the Heidelberg Disputation, thesis 21. But while I was there I got distracted – as I am wont to do – and just read through all of the theses.

The one I’d like to share with you, today, is one that I ended up placing in this next weekend’s sermon. It’s not about the contrast between the theologies mentioned above. It’s…well, I think I’ll let thesis 28 speak for itself. “The love of God does not find its object but rather creates it. Human love starts with the object.”

It’s not that God loves you because you’re special, which is how we often work with each other. It’s instead the truth that you’re special because God loves you.