I love you! These are 3 words that we all long to hear. Can you remember when you first heard these words? I am sure that it was when you were a small child and your parents said them to you…over and over again. The next time you probably heard it was that puppy love you experienced in Jr. High or sometime around that for most of us, when the special someone we liked shared their feelings with us! That 1st puppy love was all gushy and sweet, but many of us found it to be a fleeting feeling… an empty emotion that had no substance and after a short period of time it was GONE! But the love you rec’d from your parents was much different because they showed it by taking care of you, feeding you, giving you a place to live, and providing for your basic needs, and YES they even disciplined you when you needed it… all because they loved you. The sad part of this comparison is that so many of us find that 1st puppy love to be the more exciting event in our lives even though, it was not lasting. It was different, it was exciting, it was flashy, it was NEW, but it did not last. However, we find ourselves trying to relive it over and over again. We find it more flashy and exciting than the love we rec’d from our parents mainly because our parents’ love was something reliable, something predictable, something that was stable and lasting. And as sad as it is to say, it bores most of us… it’s routine… it’s everyday… it becomes mundane to us, even though it is a very real, true, and faithful love! This morning I want us to make a comparison of this sort, but from the spiritual realm. You see, many of us can remember when the world first told us that it loved us - that time when temptation came our way, when we saw something we wanted and reached out for it… when we took hold of it, it was exciting, it was flashy, it was new… but it did not take us long to see that it was not something that was going to last! But, so many of us keep trying to relive it, retrieve it and revive it. The world told us it loved us by showing us what we wanted to see, by promising us what we wanted to hear, but ultimately by NOT meeting that promise. The love of the world is a fleeting thing that can never be trusted, but we find ourselves throwing our trust and affection that way and being hurt and beaten down because of it! However, when we look at God, we see a much different picture. God has told us that He loved us… God has made it evident in His Word, but also in ways that we can hold onto… ways that are concrete and stable and do not fade away! God’s love does not tells us what we want to hear… but it provides for us what we NEED to know! God’s love not only tells us, but it shows us in the person of Jesus Christ!
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:25:54 +0000
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