Our True Love

Friends,
I initially thought of having the title as “My True Love”, for that might have served to pump up your coefficient of excitement as you read these first few lines, perhaps making you wonder if I’m choosing this day to announce some special news from my side. Well, I’m not heading in that direction here.

I do not intend to opportunistically “spiritualize” the special occasion at this time of the year by overly giving theological overtones to this wonderful “....” called love (I find it very difficult to put a qualifying noun there, for the best I could think of still falls short in its descriptive role). But I do want to make my point that as we think about love, how imperative it is for us to think about the One who alone has displayed the truest expression of love! When we look to buy a special product for ourselves, how assured we feel if we could get it from its original manufacturer!! The product becomes trustworthy and the quality is guaranteed beyond any doubt. Assuredness, trust, and guarantee (read “commitment”) are three important elements that often concern people who are “in love” with each other. But when we have a direct relationship with love’s manufacturer (God), understand how He manufactured it and has been distributing it, and agree to His terms and conditions (which are nothing but whole-heartedly accepting His love and yielding our hearts to Him), we would then not only receive for ourselves the purest and most genuine love, but would also be able to pass on to others the love that is modeled on God’s love for us. When we so model the expression of love (in all its kinds) in the human realm, then assuredness, trust, and guarantee shall never be in deficiency.

The Bible says, “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this 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 also ought to love one another (I John: 4.9-11)”. How well we truly understand these profound verses determines our grasp of the true meaning of love.

Let us all remember the original Lover!

- Wes