Love is Gift

Love seems like such a perfect gift that we often feel that our version of love is tainted.  Jesus sacrificed His life out of love for us so that we could be saved.  It was God’s sacrifice to give His only begotten Son, Jesus, for us.  The Love of the Father and Son is so holy that we can often think, due to our failures, that our love is not a gift at all.

But our love for each other is a gift.  Though we might fail at love from time to time, or often, love is still a gift worth giving. 

God knows we are imperfect beings.  He has invested the Spirit of Jesus into us so that we might taste of the Perfect that lives inside our clay vessels (2 Cor 4:7).  Today the Lord told me that we are appointed to sing about our love when we are joined with Him in eternity.  If we look at our failures here on earth we might be tempted to quit loving.  But from God’s perspective, this is a dress rehearsal for a beautiful song we will sing one day.  You may sing to your child, your spouse, your friend.  It may be a relative in the flesh, or brethren in the faith.  But on that Day you will have a beautiful song to sing to them.  Our love will inspire songs for some who would not be with us for eternity, except we had loved them on earth.

Let us not give up loving.  If there be pain or sacrifice, then we know that we are called to walk in the Savior’s footsteps, and our gift of love will endure for eternity.  Amen.