We can expose God's love to spittle

Crucified love is what truly challenges us. It challenges our pride because we see in it no room for advancing our own cause because we are loved despite ourselves. We are helpless to control the one thing that counts - God's love. We can expose God's love to spittle, lips blistered with betrayal, thorns, and finally death but we cannot suppress it. The truth is - none of us can endear ourselves to God, which means that we cannot make God need us and so to stand in God's Presence means we must get off our high horse because He sees what we are without it.

I tried every trick in the book to make Him hate me and in the end He loved me no less. Faced with this love I realized that the power of His love is beyond mine to control or manipulate.