We are in love with love. Most of the songs that exist have something to do with love. A study on the “psychology of music” determined that 67% of lyrics in every song, every decade since the ’60s, have something to do with love.
I remember dancing in the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas years ago to the song “Lookin’ for Love” by Johny Lee. The words describe the ache of the human heart:
I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places
Lookin’ for love in too many faces
Searchin’ their eyes
Lookin’ for traces of what I’m dreaming of
Hoping to find a friend and a lover
I’ll bless the day I discover another heart
Lookin’ for love….
Great song, but how do we find perfect and unfailing love in the right place? The Bible tells us that God sent Jesus into the world as an act of perfect love. Do you know His perfect love?
1 John 4:8-12 says “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
The fourth advent candle’s theme is LOVE. This advent candle is probably more misunderstood than any of the other themes. We can think of love as sentimental, happy, or sweet. But, as you see in 1 John 4:8-12, God’s perfect love is so much more!
At the heart of Christmas is that God sent Jesus into the world as an act of love. Jesus came into a world that needed help because it was in the grips of sin. Each one of us was at one point dead in our sins and did not deserve anything but death. Jesus came because God loves us so much that he doesn’t want any one of us to miss out on spending eternity with him in heaven. All we have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God who came to save us from our sins.
God saw what we needed and sent Jesus that first Christmas. It cost Him to do it. It was the greatest act of love our world has ever seen. For all peoples. Will you accept His gift?
I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places
Lookin’ for love in too many faces
Searchin’ their eyes
Lookin’ for traces of what I’m dreaming of
Hoping to find a friend and a lover
I’ll bless the day I discover another heart
Lookin’ for love….
Great song, but how do we find perfect and unfailing love in the right place? The Bible tells us that God sent Jesus into the world as an act of perfect love. Do you know His perfect love?
1 John 4:8-12 says “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
The fourth advent candle’s theme is LOVE. This advent candle is probably more misunderstood than any of the other themes. We can think of love as sentimental, happy, or sweet. But, as you see in 1 John 4:8-12, God’s perfect love is so much more!
At the heart of Christmas is that God sent Jesus into the world as an act of love. Jesus came into a world that needed help because it was in the grips of sin. Each one of us was at one point dead in our sins and did not deserve anything but death. Jesus came because God loves us so much that he doesn’t want any one of us to miss out on spending eternity with him in heaven. All we have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God who came to save us from our sins.
God saw what we needed and sent Jesus that first Christmas. It cost Him to do it. It was the greatest act of love our world has ever seen. For all peoples. Will you accept His gift?
Merry Christmas!
Take a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66kZYVVzjow
Scripture Readings: 1 John 4:8-12, Matthew 1:18-25, John 3:16, John 15:9-17, Luke 1:1-25
Nancy Abbott is the Chaplain of the YMCA of Greater San Antonio.
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