Expressing Christ's Love to Others

Love from God.
Love from the truth about love found in the Trinity.
It is a love that is radically different than what is experienced in the world, and it is a love that is found in Jesus Christ.

There is a correlation between love and life. The Bible says, "We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. All who hate a brother or sister are murderers"(1 John 3:14-15). So it is that when we withhold love from people we withhold life from people. But if we believe that perfect love exists in the Trinity, then that belief should impact the way we operate in the world and we should become people who express Christ's love to others, and thus share life.

The world, however, deals in counterfeit love. The world does not know love because it does not know God, or it has some sort of distorted view of God. And so it is that the world deals in something that is less than love, and is therefore less than life. We can look around and see life being taken every day as people use others to fill their empty concepts of self-centered love. But we have the opportunity as people who know true love in Christ to go into a dying world and share life through true love, love that seeks the good of the other in humility, and seeks no other reward than the joy of sharing love and life with others.

May we be that kind of community, and those kinds of people.

God bless you all,
See you next week at the Gathering!
-Tim