God lives and works today, and He loves
today.
We can only share His power and life
when we also share His love.
This love He has revealed to us through
the sacrifice of His Son, and this love
He gives to us that we might fulfill
the true purpose of our life.
Today's meditation, With All Our Heart by Besselia
Schlenk, calls us to return to Him the
love He so longs to receive from us.
Who can declare who Jesus is?
Only those to whom He has revealed Himself
in love.
For it is not the angels and cherubim
to whom He gives His personal love.
It's to the sons of men, to sinners,
that He has opened His heart, whom He
loves with a great love, and from whom
He seeks love in return.
Sinners become God's beloved children through the love
and sacrifice of His Son.
We are created and redeemed in order to
reach the fulfillment of our life for time
and eternity.
To love Him who first loved us.
Our relationship to Jesus has, for the most
part, become a mere matter of the mind.
We say and know that Jesus lives.
We know who He is, the Son of
God who carried our sins to the cross,
and we confess that we belong to this
Jesus Christ if our faith is attacked or
even persecuted.
But Jesus demands more.
He longs for our love.
A legend tells of a man who served
our Lord Jesus in His vineyard all his
life and entered eternity.
The angels who fetched him showed him a
coin which was the profit of his life
for eternity.
It was a big and heavy coin, and
he was very happy about it.
But one angel said, Now your coin has
to be reduced to its elements and then
weighed again, and only those parts which contain
love will count towards the weight.
When the angel returned, only one little grain
was left over.
For only to such a small extent had
this servant of God done his work in
personal and sacrificial love for Jesus.
He who is love seeks only love from
his own.
But what is this love, and to whom
is it given?
It is the love of sinners.
Sinners like the prodigal son experience not only
forgiveness, but abundant love.
Such abundant, incomprehensible love turns sinners into the
great loving souls who must love Jesus in
return with all their hearts.
Only of love, it is said, love never
ends.
Faith will cease, for in heaven we shall
see.
But love, which is blossomed here in the
darkness of faith and waits with great longing
to be with the beloved, displays all its
glowing fire on seeing Jesus face to face.
So our fate for all eternity depends upon
whether we accept the call to love him
with a deep love, with all our strength,
and with all our heart.
So all that I have I will give
him.
I'll sacrifice all I hold dear.
My whole life to Jesus belong me.
My heart seeks my love to reveal.
You have been listening to a program written
by Basile Schlink of the Little Land of
Canaan.
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