Greatest Love

It all began with love.

God spoke into the darkness and created this universe. He knelt down and fashioned man and breathed into Him the breath of life. He gave us charge of this whole world, and set us up to live in paradise.

Love.

When man sinned and broke the harmony that had been established, God found a way to restore the balance. He could have easily destroyed us and started over, but He cherished us so much. He knew that the only thing He had would repair the breech. His Son accepted the heavy call and asserted that He would come to earth to save mankind.

Greater Love.

Jesus shed His glory and took on the humble form of a servant. He was the physical embodiment of Love while He walked the earth. He led a blameless life and lived giving of Himself to those who were broken, hurting, and in need. Yet those very people Jesus helped turned on Him and condemned Him to die. Still, He chose to lay down His life so that those same people and the entire world could be saved.

Greatest Love.

We are free because of the greatest love known in the history of this world. We have eternal life because someone chose to love us when we were unlovable. Love gave us a new beginning. Love gave us no end.

As recipients of great love, we are asked to show great love in return. Just as we were shown love at our most lowly moments, we should reach out and extend love to those around us who are at low points in their lives. The exact way God’s love covered our nakedness, filled our area of need, fed our hunger, and visited our loneliness is the exact way we should give love to the world.

This love shouldn’t just be a random occurrence or meted out because we “feel” like it. Our love should have a constant flow. Regardless of how we feel, who the person is, or whether we feel that person is deserving, love should be something that springs out of us at all times.

None of us deserved God’s love. Yet He still chose to give His love. Even when we pushed Him away… Even when we abused His love... When we took His great love for granted… He still chose to give it without malice.

Greatest Love.

We are its primary recipients. We should be its primary givers.

Verse of the Day: Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1 John 4:10, 11