Do you love me?
Saint Valentine’s Day is gone, and with it the number of commercials trying to make us think that the way to love someone is to give them whatever it is that they are selling. Although there are times when it is important to demonstrate love through a gift, this shouldn’t be the main expression.
Loving someone includes time, attention, care, empathy, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and sacrifice, among others. For some reason, we tend to neglect these details, and try to fill the gap left by replacing it with gifts. It is easier to spend money on a gift than to take time to share with the person we love. Unfortunately, gifts, no matter how well received, don’t have the capacity to satisfy the need for love that we have as human beings.
Fortunately, there is someone who knows how to demonstrate what true love is.
God decided to come to earth and live among us (time), leaving behind his throne to personally experience human feeling (understanding). His time on earth didn’t represent that of a wealthy person, but that of a humble person who had to work for his own sustenance.
During his ministry Jesus showed what true love was: he enjoyed children (attention), he healed the sick, he raised the dead, he protected the marginalized (compassion), he wept with the mourners (empathy), he cared and prayed for his people (care), and had compassion of the sinners (forgiveness). But his demonstration of love didn’t end with these details. He gave us the greatest gift that humanity can receive: his own life as a sacrifice in order to offer us the opportunity of salvation.
Nobody has greater love than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. – John 15:13
If you need to be loved, go to the source: God is love.
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