Understanding differences

I was just pondering about differences between wordly relationships and relationships with God.

God loves us as much and in the same way, as we love Him, whereas in wordly relationships we are always left wondering if the other person loves us as much as we do him/her.

God never expects anything back, whereas we expect to be loved back. We get annoyed when things dont work out according to what we call "least expectations". I have been guilty of such behavior myself in the past few years.

Also, God loves us just the way we are, sinners or saints. Are we able to accept people for who they are? Are we not ourselves guilty of trying to look different to the person we love just to gain their affection. In other words we are paying a price for their affections. Sure it makes us better people, but leaves us unhappy especially if we know that our love is not reciprocated. The pursuit of God's love never makes us unhappy, because it has a guaranteed happy ending. The more love we give, the more we receive. In this case it is our deficiency that we are not receptive enough, as we are still full of human tendencies.

The above differences are only few in number but very striking.

If you ask me, how do I know that He loves me for sure, I will only say the very fact that I am alive happy and free and have all the resources to take care of myself is testimony enough.

I am struggling with these differences in the nature of relationships right now. I mean, we waste our time in wordly relationships - I know for sure I have wasted mine. We as human beings have an immense capacity to love, so why cant we direct it towards a source of guaranteed remuneration for our affections, that comes without a price and without any expectations. The only conditions are a pure heart that could be a a vessel large enough for God to fill with love. After all He cant fill up to the brim with His love a vessel that is already half filled with human fallacies and longings for all things material.

Hmmm..... This is His way of making me see reason. I dont regret my actions. It was wrong of me to expect anything else wordly when the greatest good that could possibly be bestowed was already upon me by His grace. I just went the exact opposite way to what He had ordained for me.

"Thus hath the candle singed the moth " - Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice.