By Michelle Allen
* All Scripture taken from the NIV Version of the Bible, unless otherwise indicated.
Wow… already January is almost over. Here comes Valentine’s Day. So many stores have put decorations, candy, and cards out for the day. We even tend to become more giving on these days, as we are on most holidays. I know this occurs in me on those days of celebration. Heck, we even show more love to others.
For me, that begs the question “What is love, really?” We see it as family love, friends, romantic love, etc. We may forget the most important love, though. That, in essence, has caused this world the search for love “in all the wrong places (Johnny Lee, “Lookin’ For Love).” What is love, really?
Christ is love. That, in itself, seems to be the thing we forget more than anything else. How did He love? Consider Creation. Genesis 1:1 reads :”In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ” That alone was enough, but showing Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so many other generations love until He came down to earth. But it didn’t stop there.
Luke 2 is the most thorough account of Christ’s birth. That was enough, but Christ didn’t stop there. John 3:1-16 tells about the day that a Pharisee (the Jewish religious leaders of God’s days on Earth), Nicodemus, came to Jesus and asked Him about salvation and who He was. He ended up becoming a Christian, and even helped to bury Christ when He died for us on the Cross (John 19).” The fact that Jesus gave Nicodemus a chance to accept Him, and died for him and us is love. It doesn’t stop there, though.
Today, I want to encourage to look around at those who need love (every person in your life, even strangers), and be Christ to them. Are you willing to do that? I am prepared, I pray, to do so myself.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.-“ Ephesians 3:20-21
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