“Beloved, if God so loved us, we
also ought to love one another.”—John 4:11
I remember how my friend Sudah’s
face radiated with happiness when she told me that she was engaged to be
married. Her feelings of happiness, excitement
and joy were contagious as she explained to me how she had met her fiancé and
what their plans were. It was wonderful to
see this young woman and mother of two sons that had tragically been widowed a
few years earlier, beaming with love and happiness.
So many times we tend to think of
love in human earthly terms that is connected to a sexual type of love. But the love that Jesus expressed to humanity
was not based on human emotions or ideas; He talked in terms of agape love. The love as expressed by the heavenly Father
for humanity. Billy James Foote expressed
in his song, Amazing Love the very essence
of this type of agape love.
Amazing
Love
Amazing
love,
How
can it be
That
You, my King, should die for me?
Amazing
love,
I
know it’s true.
It’s
my joy to honor You,
In
all I do, I honor You.
I’m
forgiven because You were forsaken,
I’m
accepted, You were condemned.
I
am alive and well, Your spirit is within me,
Because
You died and rose again.
Chorus
You
are my King
Jesus
You are my King
Recently, I read a testimony about a
man who lives in Montreal, Canada. He
loves to share about the love of Christ to whomever he can. In his younger years he had a real zeal to
evangelize. Referring to his drive and
ambition that he felt in sharing the gospel, he stated that, “I was probably
obnoxious.” Several years later he has learned
to “uncomplicated” sharing the gospel. He
no longer pushes so hard to share with every person that he meets, but he has
learned to be led by the Holy Spirit and to go to where He shows him to
go. He then related the following
testimony:
Talking to a tow truck driver, he
mentioned Jesus.
The man asked, “Who?”
He replied, “Jesus, God’s son.”
The tow driver asked, “God had a
son?”
When the man told the tow driver
that Jesus loved him so much that He
died on the cross for his sins, he stated to cry, and said, “Jesus loves me that much?”
Sharing the amazing love of Christ
does not have to be complicated. We just
share what is in our heart jesus!
Prayer—Father
I thank You for the gift of Your amazing love.
Love gave Himself for me, so that I could be forgiven and accepted by
You and now I purpose in my heart not to complicate Your message of love as I
share it with others, in Jesus Name. Amen.
