Love is the Answer

In my devotions the other day, I came a pond a great truth. It was one of those light bulb experiences where you just say to yourself, why I have been such an idiot. It hard for me to accept this just because it makes me feel like I may have been doing things wrong, it challenged my philosophy on life.

This great truth was Love.

But not just any kind of love, this was the love that Jesus had. It was the love that changed a lot of people’s lives. It’s the love that keeps on loving. This changed me, I have always loved but I only loved to a point that was comfortable for my only sake. I will love that man with a contiguous skin disease as long as I don’t have to touch him, or I will love that poor man who is starving but I wouldn’t feed him. I will love the homeless, but never hang out with them.

Is this how God intended us to love? Is it really love if you don’t get your hands dirty. I learned how to love this week. I learned how Jesus loved. So when Jesus did all his miracles, He did them out love. Jesus got his hands dirty when he spit on the ground and made some mud with his saliva and put it on a blind man’s eyes so that he could see(John 9:7). So I thought about that for a little bit and realized that all I had to do to heal eye was a little dirt and spit. I have a friend in my church that is an eye doctor, and I thought of going to him and telling him of this new dirt and spit cure for blindness. It is better that any eye laser surgery, because it’s what Jesus did. Now that sound really silly but why shouldn’t it work. Or is Jesus just some supernatural being that could raise people from the dead and feed thousands of people.

During Jesus ministries I have found that the main thing Jesus did was preach, do miracles, and pray. So I think that when Jesus preaches he did it out of love. When Jesus was just starting out with his ministries he preached “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near,” (Matthew 4:17). I like this because it tells us that Jesus love all beings so much that that he wanted people to be saved. When Jesus did miracles, we sometimes forget why Jesus did miracles, we only focus on that he did them. Jesus didn’t do miracles just to get people to believe because then that adds a since of fear, but he did them to show people how to love.

Even though he has a contiguous skin disease I will still touch him, and because he is starving I will feed him, and just because he is homeless I will hang out with him because he is a child of God just as I am. The miracle is not being raised from the dead or feed thousands of people, the miracle is the reason these miracles happened. And out of love anything is possible.

Before Jesus is arrested Jesus is praying. I believe that the only reason we pray is because we love. We pray to God whom we love, we pray for friends and family whom we love, we pray for everyone in the world whom we love, we pray for the safety of others and that they may be healed out of love.

The one thing that I final understood, is that love is what causes the fire to burn. Without a burning flame there’s no sharing of the gospels. Jesus was a man just like me; the only difference is Jesus fully understood the meaning of love. So this love that Jesus had is not just His but His love needs to be reflected off of me so that others may see. Who knows, may be some blind man will see because of the love I reflected.