Love Revealed

Good morning! Before you look at any of the world news or what the world will say is going to happen today, let’s share what has already happened and the Good News for this morning.   It’s better than CNN, Fox, CBS, Al Jazeera, or any of your favorite news outlets. You may even listen on the radio to NPR or any of the other radio broadcasts, but that news has no comparison to what is being revealed. 
 
1John 4:9 KJ2000 “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him”. 1Johnn 4:9 NET “By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.” Notice this Love is revealed in us.  Remember, we are an image of who He is to the dying world around us. You are the light sitting on the hill to draw attention from the darkness to the light.

It’s near sunrise here, a new day when God has given us revelation of our identity as sons and daughters. Shown is love that we may share with others.  1John 4:10 KJ2000 “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.” Propitiation means for the atonement, satisfaction, or reconciliation, the taking away. 1John 4:10 Easy English “We did not love God first. Rather, he loved us first. He sent his Son to die, to take away our sins.” 

Now, the importance of love revealed in us is shown by example. You see, He did not wait for you to love Him. He initiated the love, and you only reflect it to Him. This takes us further on the journey to initiate this love to others that cannot have a love for us because they have not been shown love.  Did you ever think about why this person cannot be kind or loving? Perhaps it’s because they have never been shown love and in that it was never revealed to them. If we could view this in light of having something that others don’t have and realizing the only way they will ever get it is for you to give it to them.  If we had the last piece of chocolate cake in the world, no one else could taste that cake unless we were to share it with them. We own the cake, no one can take it from us. So is your love, no one can force your love from you, it has to be freely given. No matter how much we describe it to them until they can taste it for themselves, it has no meaning. So goes the love we received from God to now have it revealed to those around us   
 
Next, love had a purpose. That love removed sin. It took away that which kept us separated from God. Does it not also make sense that our love would have a purpose? Our love would remove whatever separates us from others? Just questions to challenge why HIS love is revealed in us. All of you are now waiting for the challenge, right? Think about this, the love we have does not initiate with us, and therefore we should not choose for it to end with us. 
 
The challenge today is to love someone who has hurt you, that has done you wrong. To allow forgiveness to take its rightful place in your heart. Choose not to be offended in thought or deed. Choose to push beyond the expectation to that which is unexpected. Remember, we love Him because He first loved us and took an action to bring us to Him.  That action put us on His journey of love, a total unexpected action and one that was not deserved or earned. Let the love of God revealed in you be the light to show others who He is. This will put them on your JOURNEY to LOVE. God bless my beloved.