This is my prayer too, for the grace to love as He loves. Like you say, it requires freedom from hostility to love like He does and delightfully this love leads to more and more freedom.
What struck me in your reflection is when you wrote we need "Freedom against the hostile forces of the world and in himself". When I trace my lovelessness backwards there is usually first an unloving movent in my own heart against myself. This movement, being perhaps too small, or too normal, or to painfull, to capture and offer to my Lord was then is unleashed through my eyes onto the world. It is turning to His love, in hope and faith, evoking His love on myself, in myself that I am gradually set free from this hostility into a greater deeper love. The hosility starts in my heart towards myself and His love has the power to overcome this hostility so that, with Him, I can love more like Him. We are blessed. Thank you for your reflection !
This is my prayer too, for the grace to love as He loves. Like you say, it requires freedom from hostility to love like He does and delightfully this love leads to more and more freedom.
What struck me in your reflection is when you wrote we need "Freedom against the hostile forces of the world and in himself". When I trace my lovelessness backwards there is usually first an unloving movent in my own heart against myself. This movement, being perhaps too small, or too normal, or to painfull, to capture and offer to my Lord was then is unleashed through my eyes onto the world. It is turning to His love, in hope and faith, evoking His love on myself, in myself that I am gradually set free from this hostility into a greater deeper love. The hosility starts in my heart towards myself and His love has the power to overcome this hostility so that, with Him, I can love more like Him. We are blessed. Thank you for your reflection !
This is a very beautiful and important truth.