Friday, June 4, 2021
God’s Love
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God.
We use the word love easily and perhaps without thinking.
Everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
We enact the word love with our gestures and actions more than with our words.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only son into the world so that we might have life through him.
We seek God, wisdom, comfort, happiness and we look past the simple fact that we are . . . that we have the capacity to love . . . and that we are loved by our creator. We are an action of God’s love.
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that God loved us and sent his son as expiation for our sins.
We give ourselves credit for all the good that we do and the goods we possess and we look past the simple fact that we are nothing without first being created by God . . . in and for and to . . . love.
Beloved, if God so loved us we also must love one another.
We easily love our friends, family members and colleagues with whom we see eye to eye and we ignore or even reject those who disagree with us or even do us harm.
No one has ever seen God. Yet if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.
We praise ourselves for all that goes well and curse God for all that does not. We go to God in times of distress and forget to include God in our celebrations of joy.
Today, let us commit to including God in every meal, in every meeting, in every chore, and in every relationship. Let us commit to living as if we are in love with God in every gesture, with every word and in every moment and place. And let us remember to thank God for all his gift of expiation . . . for as we are forgiven so must we forgive. As we are loved . . . so must we love.
Tomorrow, this is how we know that we remain in God.
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