...make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. —2 Peter 2:5-7 (NLT)
Today is the beginning of February. February is synonymous with love. Many people celebrate Valentine's day on 14 February. On this day, sometimes, people express their love with a gift. Indeed we can express our love to others anytime. But by celebrating this event, people show that love is a universal language which everyone understands. Love can unite everyone.
Jesus Christ is God's greatest gift to humankind. The life of Jesus is God's love story with us. The life of Jesus Christ was full of love, expressed in ways such as healing the sick, raising the dead, forgiving sinners of their sins, and feeding many people, among others.
Just like Jesus, our lives as His followers should reflect a similar kind of love story. We become who we are right now because of the many stories that happened in our life.
God continue to write His love story through us. Thus, our life becomes God's love story to the world. God created us because He had a purpose for each of us.
There is no one in this world who was created without meaning. God desires us to reflect Him because we are created in the image of God. Man persistently break this mirror image, but God continue to repair it.
Our world contains good and bad stories. Just as the Apostle Peter had warned us, there are so many false teachers nowadays. They are those who teach violence instead of love. The world challenges us to deal with false narration of life.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life life. He said, "love your enemy." It is not easy for us to do so, yet with God, we can. Jesus invites us to continue writing His love story.
How many of us tell the story about loving our enemy and forgiving others? Let us narrate love and spread God's love to the world.
No comments:
Post a Comment