All You Need Is (His) Love
It sounds too good to be true at first. It’s sung in hundreds of hymns. You’re taught it from your first day of Sunday school. It’s one of the most fundamental truths of following Christ, but at the same time, it can be one of the most easily forgotten. We put it on a shelf, and simply let it collect dust, when we should be using it and taking advantage of it every waking second of our lives. It is the simplest, yet most complex ideal in all of Christianity. It is, to put it into words, the love of God. “The love of God? Heard that one before. Give me something new.” But have you really heard it? It seems so simple on the surface, but then you take a closer look, and you are blown away. The inexplicable, uncontainable, incredible, mind blowing, world changing, indescribable love of God is something we cannot take lightly. It is something that God is always willing and ready to give to you. We do not deserve it, and we cannot earn it. We can try, but God will simply smile, lay a hand on our shoulder, and quietly tell us that we don’t need to do anything except accept it. It’s not even worth it. All we need to do is accept the hand he extends. There’s no reason to scale the cliffs if there’s a stairway right in front of you. And when we accept the hand, that is truly when we begin to live. Not when we’re baptized or confirmed or become a church member or whatever. As great and important as those things are, they pale in comparison to the amazing love of God.
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