True Love
Ephesians 3:14-f.f.
What is love? What is true love and how does one know that they are loved? Movies try to show what love is but they all have a tainted definition of love and songs are none the better. Love is not a phrase that is so easily tossed around. Love is not an emotion. Love is action. How does one know they are loved? They know they are loved but what another does for them, not gives them. The children’s song that is so true says, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” How does it tell us.
The Bible does tell us many times that God loves us, but the true and complete message of God’s love is found the giving of His only begotten Son. In Ephesians 3 we are told that we can know the Love of God. Ginosko is the word used and it means to understand, feel, or perceive.
True love is found in Christ. He selflessly left the splendors of heaven, His home, to come to earth and die for us. This is the first half of true love. John 3:36 tells us that the wrath of God was satisfied in Christ. He took the pain and suffering from a holy God for us. He was our perfect sacrifice who completely gave Himself for us and then He called it joy. This gift gives us the opportunity to have a home in heaven, something that none of us deserve. However, this is what true love does. True love selflessly gives to the undeserving.
True love does not just die, rather it lives for others. This is the second half of true love. Christ did not just purchase our salvation with His death; he also purchases our freedom with His life. True love pushed Christ to lay down His life and He continues to lay it down for us. Who are you loving and living for?