So much has been said about love. Poets pen emotions into words. Musicians charm the masses with their instruments. Vocalist croon sentiments causing folks to go weak in the knees…all attempting to define, or capture the essence of, love. But perhaps love isn’t expressed so much in word as in deed.
This advent season we have peered at the horizon with hope; we’ve rested in peace, with a stillness in our hearts; and we have danced and laughed with exuberant joy. Today, we recognize it was love that began it all. What would compel a God to send His only begotten Son into this sinful, cruel, broken world? In a word, love. But it didn’t begin at Christmas. God’s love has been there all along. The blood-red thread of redemption runs from the Garden and the sacrificial lambs of the Old Covenant right through to Emmanuel, the Lamb of God, hanging on a cross.
Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.
But not only us. You see, the love that caused Christmas, loves the whole world. Today, as we light the Candle of Love, may we be so captivated and motivated by the love of Christ that we don’t stop proclaiming “good news of great joy” until the whole world knows the Love of God.
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