Life Is Fragile, Fill It With Love

This morning as I was waking, I was thinking of a recent sorrowful passing and the phrase, “Life Is Fragile, Fill It With Love” ran through my mind.  My heart immediately agreed!  

This morning I am encouraged to think of God’s Love, and how our lives should reflect that love, to ourselves, and to each other.

The first verse that comes to mind is from 1 John 4:7-12:

7 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” 

What a great set of verses to reflect on this morning.  God is the very definition of love!  The world tries to paint a picture of God as an angry, vengeful, punishing God, but Jesus, who came to reveal the Father shows us what God is truly like.  In John 14:9, Jesus told Philip, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”  If we look at Jesus’ life we see what a life of love should look like.  

The word love appears 348 times in the NASB translation, and reading those verses it is clear that it is a relational word.  Love must be expressed in a relationship, through action. 

So how do we fill our life with Love? 

First, we are invited to love ourselves!  God loves us!  He knows everything about us, and He loves us.  He has never, nor will He ever love us any less than He loves us right now!  He loves everything about us, and wants us to understand that love, and experience that Love.  The world tries hard to get us to compare ourselves to anything and everybody, in an effort to create demand for products and need, which encourages us to feel like we are lacking, less than, broken, and needing something.  God answers all of this with His love!  He loves us!  We are invited to keep saying that to ourselves until we believe it.  If God loves us, we are loveable and worthy of Love!

Secondly, we are invited to be expressions of God’s love to others!  All of us need to know that we are loved and loveable.  Our love for others should follow Jesus’ command, to love one another as (in the same way) He loves us (John 15:12).  Lord help us to see people as You see them, so we can love them as You love them!

Thirdly, we need to be in healthy loving relationships with others!  As John writes, “but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”  In our love for one another we experience God’s love.  1 Peter 4:8 says, “Above all, love each other deeply”.  Let us make sure that those we love, know of our love!  Let us love one another deeply, showing our love!  Let us love the way Jesus loves us!

Lastly, I am encouraged to do this today, for I know how fragile our lives are. I am not guaranteed another day, and I want my life to be a testament of Love.

This morning I am encouraged to love well, to love often, to make sure that I represent God’s love to everyone I meet. Lord, help me!  Help me to fill my life with Love!

Amen and Amen.