Dear China
Friends,
THE GREATEST
LOVER
Valentine’s Day is always celebrated on February the
14th. This is the day that lovers make
sure to express their love in special ways.
But who would you say is the greatest lover? Would it be some Hollywood celebrity? Would it be some famous crooner of love
songs? Or might it be your own mother or
even your mate? As great as these lovers
might be there is a greater lover than all of these. It might surprise you who this is?
Would it surprise you if I told you that it is God
Himself? Did you know that God is the
source of all love? The Bible declares,
“Dear friends, let us love on another, for love comes from God….GOD IS LOVE”
(I John 4:7,8).
But you say, “How can this be so?”
God could have made us robots who had no choice but to love Him. But He didn’t do that. He loved us enough to create us with some of
His own loving nature. Love is a matter
of free choice. Forced love is no love
at all. However, He loved us enough that
He would not leave us in the mess we got ourselves into.
What am I talking about? Originally God created us as innocent beings
who had no knowledge of the difference between good and evil. As our designer, only He knew the full
potential of what we were created to be.
But Satan convinced us that we were smart enough to be our own God and go
our own way. However, without God’s
direction we had difficulty telling love from selfish lust.
God’s remedy was to send His Son to restore our love
relationship with the God who is source of true love. “For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
life” (John 3:16).
By this means “God lives in us and his love is made complete in us”
(1 John 4:12).
--
Tom Atkinson
Love is
patient and kind.
Love is not
jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does not
demand its own way.
It is not
irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not
rejoice about injustice
but rejoices
whenever the truth wins out.
Love never
gives up, never loses faith,
is always
hopeful, and endures through every circumstance
But love will
last forever! (I Corinthians 13:4-8).
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