Love Revealed

March 28

God calls Himself our ‘Father.’ This is His way of conveying to man the intensity of His heart of love for us. We have no point of reference for the concept of an Almighty Entity who is from “everlasting to everlasting” Psalm 41:13. We cannot begin to fathom a Being who has no beginning and has no end (see Hebrews 7:1-3) so He expresses His heart to us in familiar terms, in terms we can understand.

Even those of us who may not have had loving earthly fathers know the inner longing that makes us yearn to know such a one. Through Christ’s manifestation of His love in the flesh, God has revealed to us that HE is the fulfillment of that longing. None of us need ever feel the lack of a father’s love, for our Heavenly Father has unveiled His heart through Jesus, and through Him, we see that we are precious to the Father.

We understand that It is love that conveyed Jesus to the cross and in our grasp of that reality, we know there is nothing He withholds from us, for He has given even His life that we might know Heaven’s Truth and Heaven’s Love and Heaven’s Salvation. In becoming alive to that realization, there is only one thing that our loving Savior requires of us---to share our great and glorious Hope with others. We are to share the good news of Christ’s love and salvation with everyone whose life touches ours.

Even when we haven’t the opportunity to convey His salvation package with words, we allow the “living epistle” II Corinthians 3:2 of our lives to be “read of all men.” We are to reflect the Father’s love to all—to the downcast, to the suffering, to the lost. As the half- brother of the Lord says in James 1:27, “Religion that our Father accepts…is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being negatively impacted by the world.”