Love

When Paul wrote about the three great things remaining ~faith , hope, and love~ he wasn't kidding about the greatest of these being love. Love is the thread that runs through the entire story of God's attachment to his people. He has written His name on our hearts and refuses to take no for an answer.

Pascal said " the heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." God is the best proof of that. His heart is consumed, not by logic, nor reason, nor by rules, but by passion. When it comes to love, He's ready to do anything in the name of it. The first Christmas morning was only the beginning of the incredible lengths He was willing to go. And if God truly is love, Jesus was the walking, breathing, in our faces proof of that, He started the party two thousand years ago and still hasn't stopped inviting everyone to come.

He was love, is love, and oozes love. Love tinges his every decision, his every move. He dined and danced with the rebels and losers and didn't care what the neighbors thought. When everyone wanted to stone the woman caught in her guilt, Jesus dropped the stones and let love speak the verdict.

Opening his door to anyone who knocked, he was the only one who took in any story they told. It didn't matter. Like he said, the sick were healed, and he didn't come to let the saints feel even better about themselves. He came looking for the lost, broken sinners who never even knew they had gold~engraved invitations to the party, let alone the right to RSVP. All we needed was love and he knew it. Of course he knew it. It was his plan all along.

When all the party poopers stood outside and watched through the windows, shouting their lists of all the rules he was breaking, he partied on. They really thought he needed to learn. They really thought he didn't know. They assumed he was breaking God's laws when was the one who carved them in the stone in the first place.

He knew the rules, he knew the laws. And he also knew ~ actually, He made it so ~ That the greatest law of all was love.

In the end love conquers all. Love even trumps Justice. Amazing grace, they call it, and its a grace He's extended to all his creation every day since the world first began. It's a stupendous, magnificent, beautiful thing ~ this thing called GOD'S LOVE. And it is indeed, amazing

Question~
If love truly is the greatest gift of all, how are you sharing it in your own life, with God and those around you?