Thursday, August 20, 2020
In the Darkness
The Light of Love Binds us Together
Love is our Hope
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offences.
John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’
Words of Grace For Today
See yesterday’s Words of Grace: love is God’s attitude toward us. Jesus’ record replaces ours and God sees us, just as we are, with Jesus’ unblemished record in place of ours. Wonders upon wonders is God’s love for us, all of us.
Our response to such wonders can be to choose to imitate Jesus’ sacrifice for each other, and for the strangers, among us and around the globe. That love is remarkable. It is rare. It is denounced. It is maligned.
All because it is feared, for it changes everything. It unseats power and wealth and privilege.
It establishes new order, God’s order, and old order. An order not based on greed or competition, but rather built on empathy and care for each other, and all others.
Hate is the opposite of love. Hate is a piece of death that grows and consumes us.
Love is a mystery.
Love is no mystery.
Love is unfathomable.
Love is doing the simple, caring things.
Love is doing and paying the cost for the most expensive thing: forgiveness.
Love covers all offences.
Love is life.
Love is the mysterious sub atomic string/wave/particle that holds the universe together, that gives life, and that gives life meaning.
Love is God’s way for us to live abundantly.