Sunday, September 23, 2018

Response

“Herein is love, not that we loved God,
but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be
the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10).

 “The Son of God, who loved me,
and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).

“Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it” (Ephesians 5:25).

You and I are loved with a love that longs for a response from its object. The one who loves us with a great and eternal love says, “My son, give me thine heart” (Proverbs 23:26). He asks each one of us, “Lovest thou Me” (John 21:15)?

Each day He waits and looks to be remembered by you and me. Of Israel He had to say, “My people have forgotten Me days without number” (Jeremiah 2:32). Have we forgotten Him and His wonderful love for “days without number?” As we consider that great love, and all He has done for us, let’s remember Him, not only today, but every day from now on.

“We love Him, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).