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God is love (1 John 4:7-9)

Scripture of the Day (2)! 1 John 4:7-9

 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.

 I am beginning to see how God is working in my life during this Lenten season and let me tell you, it isn't going how I planned. But I love it! Instead of getting closer to Jesus through daily biblical devotions, I am getting closer to Jesus through loving my son. I think I needed the lesson of just how much God loved us as I go through this trying time with my son. God sent his one and only Son because he IS love. He took on my most horrible sin and took me in...and never once did he make me feel bad about it. 

 So instead of my reaction being to scream, while my 3 year old screams for ten minutes in the car...I am learning to be silent and focus my thoughts. I am also learning that although I may be get frustrated, my love of my little man is unconditional, just like God's love is for me! And I know it is reciprocal. This afternoon, my son sang me a song, "I love you mommy. I love you forever, even when when you are mad. I love you mommy." Woah. Out of the mouths of babes, huh? That is what brought these verses to mind by the way! 

 My son loves me because God created him to love. And I love him because God created me to love. The only reason either one is possible is because God showed his love to us, first by calling Abraham, and then by sending Jesus down to earth (with lots in the middle, obviously!)

 I have learned in the last two weeks that although I may not know Jesus as well as I should, I am learning to love like He did a little more every day...and that is progress my friends!

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