“I LOVE YOU”
“I Love You.”
Can we remember the first time we said those words to the person we had shared time with, dated, and discovered that we wanted to share our lives with that person?
“I Love You.”
This requires three separate parts to come together in order for the transaction to occur.
First, “I” must discover the truth. That requires insight. This requires that I must look intently inside myself to see—really see—the truth!
Second, “Love” means the one who has looked intently inside his heart and discovered the truth must then display, decide, move, turn toward, respond, and DO something so the truth can be revealed—to the other!
Then thirdly, “You” requires another person to be present with us. “You” is a special word that can mean You alone or You together with others, but—You never means me!
“I Love You.”
We are so quick to speak these words as we hug someone goodbye or goodnight, to even write these words at the end of a letter or at the bottom of a card, but we are slow to show these words, to put these words into ACTION, which most definitely defines the word LOVE completely because LOVE is and will always be—A VERB!
In the Bible, we see so many passages that reveal God’s love for mankind, and David’s Psalms are a great place to read, so let’s read. Together.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?”
(Psalm 8: 3-4 NASB 2020)
Last night as we flew home from our holiday, I saw the day turn to night and the sun make way for the moon. It was the moon and the brightness of the moon as we drove home from the airport that caught my attention. The moon. Then as we turned into our driveway after a nineteen-hour journey, the stars shone so brightly as we made our way up the lane to park. The stars.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have set in place; . . .”
God created the heavens; God fashioned with His hands the world we are given to enjoy; God placed the moon and the stars in just the exact place where we can navigate our way home.
“What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?”
God considered His creation, those He first placed into the Garden; God thought of us; God wanted us so much that He made a way for mankind to share time with Him forevermore in eternity.
“I Love You.”
Those are God’s Words to us!
God placed these words into our vocabulary, revealing through His only Son Jesus the only ACTION possible to reveal the true definition of the word LOVE completely because LOVE is and will always be—A VERB!
God created us and then He pursues us until we decide to receive the LOVE He has for us!
LOVE begins with GOD!
It always has and it always will resonate the goodness of Almighty God!
- Jesus left heaven—for us!
- Jesus died—for us!
- Jesus Christ, the person of God, did this ACTION—for each one of us!
We cannot hardly comprehend the goodness of God, and maybe we are not supposed to understand if fully because maybe it is truly impossible to fathom here on earth. The Bible says we are to RECEIVE the LOVE of GOD!
- Mankind is so special to Father God!
- Mankind is so special to Jehovah God that He sent a part of Himself to earth so mankind could choose to fully accept HIS LOVE!
- Mankind is so special to the Creator that He sent His only Son to earth to make the only way—to die upon the cross for us while we are hopelessly covered with sin—to resurrect to new life.
- GOD DID THIS, GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS LOVE, GOD’S ACTION!
- GOD DID THIS so that we could receive God’s gift of eternal salvation!
“For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, [sinful mankind] in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, [having now been saved by the shed blood of Jesus Christ] we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him [through the ACTION of LOVE JESUS DID, the Son of God did for each one of us].”
(Romans 5: 6-9 NASB 2020)
“I Love You.”
Let us be quick to speak these words.
Let us be quick to even write these words.
Let us be quick to show these words, to put these words into an ACTION.
Let us be quick to see God’s love for us & to receive God’s love for us!
LOVE—It Is and Will Always Be—A VERB!