Love? I’ve Got Nothing to Say!

     During this month I am writing about love.  You will see it marketed all over the stores and websites promising to help find you someone to love.  Obviously it is a captivating subject.  My thesis on this subject is this: If we learn to love God, all the other forms of love will fall into place.  It won’t start with a website or a new social circle. It starts with your creator.

    Though many think of God and feel unworthy, God looks at each of us and thinks lovely! When Paul penned his letter to the Romans he spent much of the first seven chapters discussing sin.  For example: All have sinned (Rom. 3:23), death spread to all men because all sinned (Rom. 5;12), Are we to continue in sin (Rom. 6:1), The wages of sin (Rom. 6:23), and sin …dwells within me (Rom. 7:17).

    Suddenly (Rom. 8:1-2), as though a light breaking through the darkness Paul gives us the secret of love that releases us form the curse and burden of our sin. “¹ There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ² For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death..”

     Jesus stands at the door of every heart knocking (Rev. 3:20) and those who invite Him to rule on the throne of their lives enjoy a love and light the surpasses the greatest imagination.  It brings new life now and the promise of eternal life ahead.  Paul continued (Rom. 8:11) “¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” It gives us a close, adopted relationship with our heavenly Father that allows us to cry out to Him like a child cries for his or her earthly father. (v. 16).

      Paul elaborates on the rewards of being in Christ in verses 18-30 such as the strength to endure, a glorious corruption-free heaven, the power of the Holy Spirit to assist us when we don’t know how to pray or even how to have the right emotions.  The God who searches our hearts wants more than anything to endue our hearts with this kind of love.

     As a grand finale, Paul gives out the rhetorical questions: (Rom.8:31) 1) If God is for us, who can be against us? (Rom. 8:33) 2) Who could bring a charge against God’s elect (you)? And (Rom. 8:35) 3) Who shall separate us form the love of Christ?  God has sent you the biggest valentine possible in the person of Jesus Christ who dies so that you might really love and live. 

     How can your respond?  Begin to follow Jesus with all your heart to day and say like Paul did (Gal. 2:20) “²⁰…the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”  So when it comes to the love of God there is no argument.  It is the best.  And when I feel unworthy and see that Christ has made me clean, I’m speechless.  There is nothing to say.  Only to follow and do the things that bring honor to Him.