Love Reigns!

Daily, I encounter people from every walk disputing about what they know, people remonstrating about issues, bickering over what's right and wrong, boasting over what they know because of who they thought they are, and the record goes on.

People dispute over everything, and taking center stage could most probably be religion. Even among its own group of believers, people bickered over how well they could interpret the text of each religion's teachings.

As a Christian who sits at the feet of my Saviour Jesus who teaches me everyday, I've learned that the most important role of a true Christian is to live our earthly life, touching other lives filled with Christ love in our hearts. Without love, we cannot please God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus because our Father is love.

I wrote a fortnight ago that a true Christian is someone who not only carry his own cross but also the cross of others. Repeatedly throughout Scripture, we were reminded of love, and to love, and the highest priority, is to love our enemies like ourselves. Without love as the pre-eminent fruit of our accomplishment, we are nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 expounded our Saviour's stipulation with clarity to those who wished to be His followers. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.

We can talk and talk and do and do until eternity, but if Christ's love is not in our accomplishment, everything is futile. In truth, as Christians, all we needed is to equip ourselves with Christ's love in the gifting of the Holy Spirit to live our earthly lives. We may spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge, but if our lives are not lived by the fillings of Christ love, we lived in vain for Him.

For when we were still sinners, our heavenly Father overwhelmed with love for us, His children created out of His own hands, came as a man in Jesus to die for us so that we can be sons of the Living God.

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only begotten son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love- not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends since God loved us so much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
1 John 4:7-13

Thank you Lord Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ aka Greatest Valentine of mankind whose love for us is eternal.

Happy Valentines Day!