The Love of God

I was thinking the other day, as I was driving to work, about relationships. I was praying and was in frustration at the thought of my discontent -Discontent with one relationship in particular. I've been wondering why I don't have a deeper relationship with this person and have been hurt over it. But I realized- as I was praying, God showed me- that I desire more of a realtionship with this person than this person desires from me. I thought of different instances that have made this relatively clear.... and initially this thought really hurt me. But as I was praying over this, God opened my eyes to something ---- I may love this person, desire a deeper relationship, and long to show my love through my actions; but my ability to be there for this person and to demonstrate my love is inhibited by their lack of desire to allow me into their life. Often God must feel this same way. He loves all people unconditionally, yet so often people don't care to know Him. People don't always claim to outright reject Christ, yet by their actions they push Him away. They don't care to seek after Him, to find truth, and because of this God cannot be there for them in the way that He so desparately desires. In the same way that I'm hurt by this one person, God must be immeasurably hurt by so many. The thought of this broke my heart. People reject Christ because they believe He's judgemental and cruel, but they don't know His love because they've never allowed their hearts to experience that love. What a loving God we serve.... it's heart-breaking that people cannot see this...