All You Need Is Love

All you need is love -- no argument there. Except this truth exists more as a slogan more than as a reality. Very little love is shown in this world, beyond that towards ones immediate family. The most notable exception would be Christian missionaries who sacrifice to bring health and healing to disadvantaged peoples around the world. Establishing churches, schools, orphanages, medical clinics -- now that's love.

Oh yes, and the persons, mostly Christians, who support children in third world countries. That's love, too.

All you need is love.

If there is one thing I've learned from reading blogs it is that enmity and hate far outweigh love and goodwill in the unguarded human heart. Check out almost any blog and you will find that this is so. Canadians are, it seems, especially hateful. Hatred and enmity, it seems, come naturally. Love, as an obligation, needs to be taught.

All you need is love -- but what you mostly see is enmity and hate.

It appears that the Bible's assessment of the human heart is accurate. The only question that remains -- what about its assessment of the penalties and remedies? If it is right in its diagnosis, does not this indicate that it may also be right in its statement of the penalty, and the remedy?

Once we understand that we are sinful, does the imposition of a penalty by a righteous God not seem reasonable? Not only does it appear reasonable, one could argue that it is necessary for God is to maintain his position as the moral author, arbitrator, and authority of the universe.

What goes beyond reason is the revelation that this God who ought to punish us actually cares for us, actually seeks our good, and has gone to an astonishing length to procure our pardon.

For, "the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ", by way of the Cross.

Now, that's love.

Have a good Sunday. See you in church.

And that's the way the Ball bounces.