Currently I am reading
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. This book showed me why Dickens is so famous. However, no matter how great the story is, I couldn't stop connected certain parts of the story with what Jesus had done for me. One very moving quote came from deep into the story.
"Before I could answer (if I could have answered so difficult a question at all), she repeated, "Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!"" ... Throughout the whole book an old rich woman is telling young Mr. Pip to love the old woman's daughter (Estella). This rich woman however, had been known to be crazy ever since she had been betrayed by her husband on their wedding day. It is known by the boy that the rich woman is probably tricking young Pip to fall in love with the daughter first and then feel the old woman's pain when the daughter marries another man.
Nevertheless, after I read that quote (above) I felt as if it was God talking to Jesus. I felt that God was saying to Jesus that Jesus must love us (humans) NO MATTER WHAT. I was reminded how Jesus still loves us even though we may want and love other things.
Reading through Mr. Pip's point of view, I saw how painful it was to see the person he loved so much, give him endless misery.
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