Life is the greatest gift given to you by God. But life has no meaning without love.
Maybe the circumstances of your birth were not the best. Maybe you were born into an incomplete family. Perhaps you don’t know who your father is. Or, maybe nobody wanted you to be born. None of these circumstances matter. God gave you life to overcome death through love.
Love starts with the family. Our family is the school of love. It’s in our family that we learn to forgive, accept, surrender and love one another despite anything. God created family as a place of love. So if love dies, so does the family.
The church is the family of God, and through the church we begin to love everyone. Our faith must be motivated by love (Galatians 5: 6), and nothing makes sense without love (1 Corinthians 13: 3). Love is the power of the Gospel. “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)
If you have lost the joy of life, it means you have stopped loving. Perhaps the people who are close to you pushed you into the pit of rejection and threw at you stones of offense and bitterness. None of this matters. God’s love never stops. His love is enough to raise you from the dead and give you back the joy of life.
God proved His love for us by having Jesus suffer and die on the cross for our sins. Now you don’t have to suffer and you don’t have to die. That is the meaning of the Good News – the Gospel. Jesus came so that you may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10: 10).
Come to the risen Jesus today and accept His love. Start loving Him and the people around you, and you will see how your life will be filled with meaning, joy and happiness. Start loving and be loved. Do this and you will live.
#FromHeartToHeart Stan & Lana
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