God's amazing love

In the service yesterday our pastor talked about the parable of the prodigal son's return and the different responses it evoked. One thing that I had not thought of before was that God's love is not a "zero sum game" meaning that if I get something, someone does with less to compensate for my gift. God's love is not a "zero sum game".

What I struggle with is that I do not understand how God can love me single-mindedly with His eye solely on me...AND He can love someone else single-mindedly with His eye solely on him or her, AT THE SAME TIME. In our world we can’t do it. If we spend time with one of our children, another one has to deal with our absences because we can’t be in two places at the same time.

The prodigal son was welcomed back to the family after his struggles. Immediately the older son feels jealous, perhaps because he feels that his father never focused on him in the same way.

If God can be everywhere at the same time, why can’t He have His eye single-mindedly on everyone at the same time. I struggle to comprehend this, but I struggle as well with understanding where the edge of the universe is.

God is just that big!