To love is to risk
TO LOVE IS TO RISK Mario D’Couto In Genesis 2:15-17, it is written, “The Lord God brought the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And He instructed him saying, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it, you will surely die.’” Love is dangerous. It comes with so much potential for pain because true love must involve real choice. The definition of risk is to ‘expose (someone or something valued) to danger, harm or loss.’ To avoid all danger, harm or loss (i.e. risk), God would have had to remove all choice, all risk of people not loving Him but in the process of doing this, He would also have to erase any scenario of true love taking place. God would have none of this ‘safe love’ because He knows this is an impossibility and in fact,...