Truth Teacher

The term “reckless” generally doesn’t connote positive feelings…unless coupled with a term like “love”.  Negative terms when juxtaposed to a positive word can radically alter our perception of the word.  It comes as no surprise that our worship team was discussing the song “Reckless Love”.  Most everyone seemed to be enthusiastic about the song and even applauded the clever use of ascribing “reckless” to God’s love. I was the only one who initially commented that I don’t see God’s love as reckless, in fact the opposite.  God’s love is planned, predestined, generous and even calculating.  Grudem’s “Systematic Theology” defines His love as “God eternally gives of himself to others”.  I guess you could say that a “reckless love” could fit within that definition.  But I struggle with the term apart from “love”.  I looked up the term “reckless” in Scripture and in every case it is used in a negative sense…wi...