I have been thinking more and more about our lives and the lives around us. I’m sharing this with you specifically because we have something in common, we’ve come to know Jesus Christ as our savior and our friend. but as I’m continually living life with those who those have not, I’m curious to understand myself ,why I am saved. In a world where contentment can easily be sought but true satisfaction never to be found, where did we understand (and how) to meet our beautiful Jesus and filled by Him? Without doubt we stumble when the world shakes but before we pick ourselves up, do you ever ask yourself why? Surely, we are no more special and unique than those next to us but somehow when we heard His promptings in our hearts, we responded. Why do, and did, you make the choice to accept Him in your heart when He asked you? What keeps you in wait for Him?


Without doubt, it is difficult to put our answer in words, for our lives are the true evidence to our answer. But I feel, if we are able to consciously realize and comprehend why we have accepted Him, we are also closer to truly appreciating and understanding more of our relationship with Him. We’re living in a world where love is everywhere, from the romances we believe too good to be true to perversions of love exhibited for market appeal. Our existence originates and thrives from love. The vows of your parents, the childhood crushes and teenage heartbreaks, the relationships in your family that shape who you are, to the indescribable excitement of seeing the one you love (or think you love)…Love? is one of the greatest questions in our lifetime. And the most difficult to discern.


And yet, we have found true love, in our Savior. And for those we do love, but who do not know about His love.. For many are happy, they are content, they are sufficient on their own, but they have not the greatest love of all.


Perhaps if we can better understand why and how we came to love Him we can also better understand what His relationship means to us, understand ourselves as humans, understand those around us- how we can better reveal His love.