May 27, 2021 (Thursday)
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And everyone a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
O love of God, how rich and pure,
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure,
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Long ago God gave us The Ten Commandments. These are common sense rules for individuals or groups. Then God sent His Son into the world to remind us that the first four Commandments can be summarized by “Love God!” and the rest of the Commandments can be summarized by “Love one another!”
God wants us all to live by love as our guide in all that we do. He proved He meant what He said by giving us His only Son, Jesus, who proved His love for us by dying in our place on a cruel cross, paying for our sins and inviting all people to be forgiven by the matchless love of God. He arose from the dead and invites us to follow Him by allowing His Spirit to live within us, producing a life of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
The Bible contrasts this “fruit of the Spirit” with “works of the flesh:” “sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these.”
In these troubled times, hatred manifests itself in a variety of ways, but so does love. The Bible says, “faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
We can discover that love by believing in Jesus Christ as Savior, committing ourselves to Him as Lord of our lives.
As a song from a few years back says, “What the world needs now is love. No, not just for some, but for everyone.”