Sometimes it may feel like you’re a flower amongst the weeds. So much around us is negative, pessimistic and ugly.
Then comes the “why”?
Why am I placed among these people? Neighbors who are unfriendly, co-workers who are antagonistic and family who are unloving.
Why?
Jesus may have asked that very question, but He also knew the answer. His Father loved the world…He was sent to bring knowledge of that love and forgiveness to us all.
Now here’s another “why”.
Why do I love the Lord? Why am I willing to stand for Him when others think my ways and ideas are old fashioned, out of date, archaic and foolish? Why do I believe in a God I can’t see and why am I willing to base my life on His word?
Why?
How do I answer these questions to others and how do I answer them in my heart?
In a nutshell – I love the Lord because He loved me first! In all my life my heavenly Father has never had a bad thought about me; He has never belittled me, never lied to me and He has never abandoned me and He never will!
Has He approved of everything I’ve done? NO
Has He corrected and instructed me? ABSOLUTELY
He has loved me unconditionally and without embarrassment.
My greatest form of worship is to love Him and then to love others as He has loved me.
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him. 10 True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.
11 That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us. If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.
13 We know that we live in God and God lives in us. We know this because he gave us his Spirit. 14 We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now. 15 Anyone who says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” is a person who lives in God, and God lives in that person. 16 So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love.
God is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them. 17 If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus. 18 Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear…19 We love because God first loved us.” I John 4:8-19 ERV
Like that flower among the weeds, we are here to bring the beauty of God’s love to the world.
I pray that you have an intimate knowledge of how much God loves you – it’s life changing!