Love People – Love God

The greatest opportunity set before us in life has to do with love and God.  Loving others and loving God.  And the two are linked together.

God entrusted his love to us.  When you look up entrust it speaks of handing over a responsibility, recognition, investing, authorizing.  We entrust our children to the care of the volunteers in the Children’s Ministry.  When we do this we expect that our children will be handled with care, will be taught the Word, will be protected and loved.  When we entrust we are expecting the people in whom we’ve authorized this responsibility to do good and right things.

God entrusted His love to us.

As His people, we then are called to act responsibly, knowing we have been recognized as a worthy investment.  He’s already given it to us – the moment we accepted Him as Lord and Savior, He declared us a worthy investment. We did nothing to earn it.  We simply opened our hearts to Him, entrusted our lives to Him and He entrusted Himself back to us.  Not quit an equal investment I’d say.  I trade my life for His love?  The God of the universe, who knows me, who designed me, who sees the beginning from the end declares that I am worthy of His love.  Not only worthy of it but trusted to share it with others!

Doesn’t that make your head spin?  Throughout life we draw conclusions about what we experience from others.  Conclusions that say we’re not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not old enough, not young enough, not ________ – you fill in the blank or blanks.

So here’s the challenge – can we live up to the standard God has set in His example of entrusting His love to us, by loving others the same way.  By applying the filter of forgiveness to every action, every wrong word that comes our way and see people as God sees them, as He saw us – a worthy investment.  An investment that requires nothing in the way of having to earn our love because while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Love and God are linked together.  If we want to love others we must love God – correctly.  If we want love God we must love others – correctly.  You cannot have one without the other.  You might be able to get away with it for a season but head knowledge doesn’t take us very far into our destiny.  Heart knowledge is where the Truth sets us FREE.

~ by Jen Chappell on September 30, 2009.