GOD is LOVE, Part 2.
Today the biblical words “God is Love” are carved into or painted on the walls of many Christian churches and Sunday schools. Men in the past have tried to usurp “God is Love” as being totally masculine, but there can be no denying this name for Deity as also being feminine. The truth is that, as with the previous synonyms for God, both sexes can express Love. No human is locked out of the door to God as Love. The more we live the qualities emanating from divine Love, the more we are expressing the image and likeness of Elohim, whether male or female.
Some men have trouble accepting Elohim as divine Love because many of the qualities listed below appear to be more feminine than masculine and because this factor causes conflicts in macho-minded men. Men are supposed to be able to express all the qualities of God, but how can machismo be reconciled with what machismo feels are lesser feminine qualities? Such a reconciliation might diminish a man’s machismo, which he often confuses with manhood. Yet Jesus was not only masculine, overturning the tables of the money-exchangers in the Jerusalem temple and later facing the most painful form of torture unto death, but was also gentle, kind, loving, compassionate to men, women, and children. His expression of feminine qualities did not diminish his manhood but heightened it with a supreme sense of balance. Cannot both sexes harvest the fields of divine Love, reaping the qualities of Love?