God's Love & Victoria's Secret

Two of the most important truths to understand about God's love is that it isn't based on our attractiveness to him, and it is completely free of any selfish motives on God's part. These two realities stand in shocking contrast to the Victoria's Secret ads, that seem to be all over the tube this season. Victoria's Secret says that a woman's desirability is based on whether she looks like a knock-out runway model, and she is presented to the male viewers as an object to be used. Could anything be less like God's love for us? God loved us, and sent His Son to save us, while we were still sinners. He doesn't stop loving us, or love us less, when we sin. He certainly doesn't care what we look like, physically speaking. In fact, the Lord says in Proverbs that beauty is vain (Proverbs 31:30). And nothing about God's love is self-serving on His part. God doesn't use us, exploit us, or tear us down for His own selfish pleasures. God's kind of pleasure is to rescue us, heal us, strengthen us, build us up, and eventually save us from death itself. The clearer this vision of God's love is burned into the retina of our minds, the more we will be freed from the corrupt images of love proffered by the world.