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"That God so loved"

"That God so loved"

By

Tina Tobo

PSLC, BL, Ph.D. 

... the ultimate law is love.

That God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. In the summary of God's love for us. It is the nexus of the Christmas birth with the Good Friday death and the Easter resurrection with the Pentecost outpouring. God showed us the ultimate template for love and to love. Jesus said if you give your life for Christ's sake you would find it. But in showcasing the love of God, we are not called to be murderers or be suicidal or to perform human sacrifices. Jesus has paid the ultimate price for our redemption and reconciliation back to God. We are called to love 'vertically' between us and God being over all and 'horizontally' between us and our fellow humans. This love required of us and from us is ready to suffer long and is kind; it does not envy nor does it parade itself; it is not puffed up and does not behave rudely; it does not seek its own nor is it provoked; it thinks no evil and does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Infact this love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things. This Love never fails. Such a love is ready to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons, for it was freely received, that is why it freely gives. 

This love leads to perfection in making one ready to go and sell what one has to give to the poor. This love is ready to give a little one a cup of cold water in the name of being a disciple. Do you want to know more about this love? Then listen to Jesus Christ: 'assuredly inasmuch as you did the following to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me' - that when hungry you gave food; when thirsty you gave drink; for the stranger you took in; the naked you clothed; the sick you visited; the prisoner you visited.' Are you surprised that God places so much importance on the poor and downtrodden? Well so much so that even he who has pity on the poor lends to He the Lord, and He Himself will pay back what he has given. Blessed be the poor in spirit, happy are they, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. God so loved you and I that He sent Jesus Christ not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. God so loved.



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