Can you love God unconditionally? That is the big question. All this time you may have
thought that the question was, Can God love you unconditionally, but the big question is, Can
you love God unconditionally. Because you can only receive My love in the way you give Me
yours.
Oh, my, that’s an enormous statement. Again, I’m going to ask You to repeat it. I can’t let that
one just sup past.
You can only receive God’s love in the way that you give God yours.
I suppose this is true of human relationships as well.
Of course. You can only receive another’s love in the way that you give them yours. They can
love you their way as long as they want. You can only receive it your way.
You cannot experience what you do not allow others to experience.
And that brings us to the last element in this answer:
jealousy.
Out of your decision to love God jealously, you have created the myth of a God who loves
jealously.
Wait a minute. You’re saying we are jealous of You?
Where do you think the idea of a jealous God came from?
You have tried as hard as you can to co-opt My love.
You have tried to be the sole owner. You have laid claim to Me, and done so viciously. You
have declared that I love you, and only you. You are the chosen people, you are the nation
under God, you are the one true church! And you are very jealous of this standing that you
have bestowed upon yourself. If someone claims that God loves all people equally, accepts
all faiths, embraces every nation, you call that blasphemy. You say it is a blasphemy for God
to love in any way other than the way you say God loves.
George Bernard Shaw said that all great truths begin as blasphemies.
He was right.
This jealousy-ridden kind of love is not the way that I love, yet this is the way that you have
perceived My love, because this is the way that you have loved Me.
This is also the way you have loved each other, and it is killing you. I mean that literally. You
have been known to kill each other, or yourselves, because of your jealousies.
If you love another person, you tell them that they must love you, and only you. If they love
another person, you become jealous. And this is not where it begins and ends.
For you are not only jealous of other people, you are jealous of jobs, of hobbies, of children,
of anything that takes the focus of your loved one away from you. Some of you are jealous of
a dog, or a game of golf.