Everybody talks about
love; we either have it and want everyone to know it, or we don't have it and
want everyone to help us find it. Love
is important for our well-being. Those
who are deprived of it suffer greatly and usually take out their frustrations
on others. Many do not know how to
handle being loved later on in life when they are denied it early in life. Many are so starved for love that they behave
out of the normally acceptable standards of social behavior in order to find
it.
God is love and made
us with the need to love and be loved.
He showed us how to love by sending Jesus into the world to be our
Savior. Our Lord showed us how to love
others. He touched so many lives
wherever He went. He healed those who
reached out to Him, both physically and spiritually. He taught love. He equated love with the identifying
characteristic of His disciples.
We are to love each
other in the same way we are loved by God.
In order to do that we must first know what it is to be loved by
God. We can't act towards others in love
if we don't experience first God's love.
And, if we don't act towards others with godly love, we are not His
disciples. We prove our love and relationship
with God by our love for one another.
We can only know
God’s love through Calvary. It was love
that kept Jesus on the cross, not the nails that held Him there. It was God’s love that allowed Jesus to take
upon himself our sin, its guilt, shame and condemnation. It was love that drew salvation’s plan and it
can only be known through the forgiveness of Jesus when we confess our sins to
Him and accept what He did for us on the cross.
God loves you but you
will never know His love apart from Jesus.
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