The mysteries of love and wickedness
At Just Thomism, James Chastek meditated on God’s goodness and human wickedness. “The ceaseless saccharine sermons about God’s love forget its main marvel: we’re not lovable. It’s mercy.” But this point isn’t easily grasped. “We shouldn’t confuse knowing that we don’t command or justify love with knowing just how and in what way we don’t command or justify love.
“Correctly experiencing our own wickedness is as hard as experiencing the presence of God, and they grow in tandem. We are as likely to make mistakes about our unloveableness as we are to make mistakes about God’s nature. Only knowing God’s love as a saint could one know man’s depravity correctly.”
