“Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love.”
1 John 4:8
The late psychiatrist, Dr.Karl
Menniger, declared, “Love is the medicine for the sickness of the world.” No
person can be a well-rounded individual and relate to the world about him if he
has not discovered the power of love itself.
A woman prisoner in Paris was lonely,
afraid and bitter. She resisted any attempt to break through her defensive
barrier.
A prison worker spoke to this woman
and offered Gospel tracts and told her that God loved her no matter how far she
had strayed from His presence. The response was a snarl, “Nobody loves me –
don’t talk to me.” For several years every attempt to bridge the barrier was
met with rebuff. Then without planning, the opportunity came.
That day, the prison worker began her
round passing through the jail as she normally did. As she passed the prisoner
without thinking she bent over and kissed her. The woman reeled back then
looking up into the face of her undeserved friend, she began to weep. “Why did
you kiss me?” She asked. “Nobody has kissed me for many years. Kick me, strike
me, use me and leave me – but kiss me, no!”
Paul wrote, “But God demonstrates his
own love for us in this: While we were sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans
5:8). That’s the acid test – a demonstration of love so costly that it required
the very life of God’s son!
Two thoughts: (1) Don’t give up
striving to reach out in love when your attempts are rebuffed and (2) When
people attempt to show love in your life but in theirs as well. That’s the way
God made us!
God Bless Us..
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