There’s so many verses on love in the Bible but I want to reflect on Romans 5:8. In Romans the Bible says that love looks like Christ dying on a cross. Our greatest valentine is not a card filled with red hearts and candy but rather a bloody red body nailed to a cross. Even in our sin, God’s love for us is so strong he sent his son Jesus to be killed by us and then poured out his anger of sin on his son instead of on us. It difficult for me to understand that kind of amazing holy perfect love! But this loving act gave the whole world a way to escape from eternal death!!!
It’s easy as a parent to love on our children when they are being cute and listening to every word we say (okay that never happens). But when our children our being disobedient over and over again, it takes patience, kindness, and selflessness to choose to continually love on our children instead of disciplining out of impatience, frustration and anger. (1 Corinthians 13:4)
In Ephesians 6, Children are commanded by God to honor their father and mother. It’s the only commandment God gave directly towards children and all children break it! This commandment even comes with promises their days will be joyful and plentiful. Ahh the secret to a long life!! But in the next verse God tells Fathers not to be to critical or overly corrective on children or it will upset and discourage them. We are to instead use the same type of instruction and discipline as God uses with us -his children. When love is our motivation for discipline, children are more easily able to accept their correction.
Often after I discipline my children I end it with a big long hug and tell them I love them. It makes them so happy and secure to know hey my mom does love me even though I did these wrong things. It takes away the guilt and shame of their wrong and covers it with love!
Satan wants us to hide our sin and hold on to feelings of guilt and shame in it. But God wants us to bring it out in the open, so he can teach us how to get rid of it and forgive us. We then just need to open ourselves up to receive that forgiveness and allow ourselves to be smothered in his love.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8 NIV
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4 окт 2024
