We become what we Love

"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing..." (Clare of Assisi)

Somebody asked Augustine of Hippo. "I am a very uneducated man and I cannot read Scriptures and great Theology Books. You give just give me a small message. I'm very foolish and my memory is not so good, so you just give me the gist, so I can remember and follow it. Responding to this man petition, Augustine remain silent for hours. The man said, "Please if you have found, just tell me, so I can go, because I have been waiting for hours. Augustine, a great philosophers and saint answer him. "I cannot find anything else except this, love...just love."

Why love? Love is the greatest. This is the divine logic. If God is the greatest, love is, because God is love. Yet, the reason why love is the greatest, apart from the ontology of love, is the implication of love.

love isn't just love, love transforms. When we love, we become what we love the most. This is what most people do. They love many "things" so consequently they turn to be less-human. They become more materialistic. Dull and insensitive to the voice of transcendent. In Christian faith, a similar principle apply. Nonetheless, it is not that we become "what" we love the most but we become "whom" we love the most. The object of love in Christian faith is God, a person. God is "He", not "it". The more we love God, the more human we are. Not that we are not a human previously and then evolve to be one but it's about realizing our dignity within, more, with clarity and concludes with full conscience, we are human and not an animal in process nor human in making!

When we love, all things related to our love, gravitated toward us, signified and identified us. You are not drunker unless you are a drinker. Your acts define you, as many modern philosopher and existentialists would tell us. Your value and dignity are based on your actions, there is no inherent value in us, as we come into being in this world. This is true of the world but not of Judeo-Christian worldview. We become what we love not in the sense that we are transforming to what we aren't before. We become what we love is to be what you are already are, in God (Christ). In fact, it is God who move us to love him in the first place so that we always stay to be like Him, loving and lovable. 

Augustine wonderfully describes, Amor Meuys Pondus Meum, "my love is my gravity". I agree completely. Indeed God is the uninterrupted gravity. The supreme love that pulls. His love isn't  like a gravity that can be intercepted by the airplane or a rocket launcher as seems, there is no gravity to hold those things from flying  upward. God is love. He defined and valued man. He is the ultimate love that pulls everyone He loves closely and unfailingly, grounded to Himself. Apart from Him, we can be everything and anything, randomly and miserably though our wild and careless love. As we have been loved by Him, we can only says to ourselves as a reminder, Love God. Just love God.