Good morning,
Valentine’s day is this Friday. It is the day, each year, when we think about love for others. We buy heart shaped candies and flowers for our loved ones.
But what is love? Who is love? How should we express our love for others?
Love should be an everyday event in our lives.
GOD IS LOVE
Examples of God’s love
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Joseph In all Joseph’s adversity, God loved him and cared for him
Exodus God loved his children Israel and provided a way of escape from the Egyptians
Rahab was a harlot but God loved her and saved her and her family
Ruth was a Moabite
David had a man killed
Solomon disobeyed God
Saul, persecutor of the church on the road to Emmaus
How do we respond to God’s love?
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
I John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
I John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
God’s love is unconditional. He loves the worst of sinners. He draws the worst of sinners to Himself. He makes them into His instruments of righteousness.
Reflect and meditate on the list of names. Then reflect on your own life. If God could use this list of vile, wicked, and immoral people, he can also use you!
The question is, will we let Him?
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001 chaplain@alaskaseniors.com
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