Sunday, September 06, 2009

No Conditions! - September 6, 2009

Good Sunday morning on this fine Labor Day weekend. My mind seems to be a bit wandering this morning, probably the sleep wasn't all that I had hoped it would be last night. The question I have this morning is: Does our love have conditions? If your love of another person requires that the person also love you, then that love is not like Christ's love. Some people like pets because "they love you back." If our love requires that the object return our love, then it is not like Jesus' love for us. What if a person decides not to love another because they haven't been introduced, or don't know them well enough, or they are from a foreign land? We have heard all of these reasons before, perhaps we have used them in our own denials. Praise God that Jesus didn't wait until He had met everyone before dying for our sins! Praise God that Jesus made no excuses for loving every person: past, present, and future. Jesus prayed for those who refused to believe in Him, those who believed but didn't understand his mission, and even for those of us not yet born when He knelt in prayer in Gethsemane. Thank you, Lord, for loving me without condition!

Bucky

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