Infinite Sum Game
A Zero Sum Game is one in which any gains by one person translate directly to another person's loss. If one person earns a dollar, then the other loses a dollar. This is not how God's love works. The pure love of Christ is part of an infinite sum game. We are not all struggling for a finite portion of God's love and attention. If God's love for one of His children increases, it does not diminish the love He feels for the others. Just because He now has greater joy for the one that was lost does not mean that His joy is any less over the ninety and nine who were not lost. As we plead with the Lord with all of the energy of our soul that we may have charity first for our loved ones, then for our neighbors, and finally, even for our enemies, that charity does not need to be stretched out or split up. With each new person we honestly and sincerely attempt to love even as God does, our capacity to love only grows and grows. In the parable of the pounds in Like 19, the Lord saw that the servant had been able to multiply his pound into ten pounds, so he then gave Him charge over ten cities. That is how the Lord works. It's all about magnifying, multiplying, increasing, growing, progressing. There are many mansions in the House of our Father, more than enough and to spare. "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." (Luke 6:38). The Lord has us try to love just four or five people at first. And then when we've doubled that, He'll give us ten cities to love and watch over. And then, after that, ten kingdoms. Then ten worlds. It may be true that God has an infinite capacity to love because He is all powerful. But it seems to be that it makes even more sense that God is all powerful because of His infinite capacity to love and understand and respect and care about and care for. God is love, and to love utterly and completely and perfectly and eternally and infinitely is to be God.
