In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that God loved us. I think for people in the United States this most basic of Biblical truths is hard to accept. We have been raised with the mentality that “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” As the old ad put it: we make money the old fashioned way — we earn it. We don’t earn God’s love. It is freely given before we do anything and anything we do cannot make God stop loving us. The “yoke” Jesus asks us to take on is that of being loved … because once we know that we are loved everything is different. As beloved people love overflows and we can, in turn, love others.
JUNE192020
By Church Staff