“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” (1 John 4: 9 – 11)
God is the source of love for He is love. If it had been left up to us, there would have been no salvation because our inheritance as the children of Adam is sin and any move we might have made towards reconciliation with a holy God would have been doomed to failure. But God knew that and in His infinite love and mercy, made the first move and opened the way for sinners like us to come back. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins.” Today we can continue to know and to live in His love and enjoy the freedom from guilt and the peace that comes from knowing that we are now new creations free from the condemnation of sin. But we are to remember one thing. Just as God loves us, we are to love others and be walking role models of His love in action. Sometimes that’s a tough call and we need His help by the Holy Spirit to make that happen. Let that though be our goal and let us open up ourselves to Him so that He might equip us to demonstrate His wonderful love through our lives.