Do you remember the
song “let’s talk about love baby, let’s talk about you and me…” Looks like love
is the topic today. Let me tell you a story. There was a blind woman who hated
herself because of her blindness. Not only did she hate herself but she hated
everyone else as well except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry him. So one day,
anonymously, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and she had them installed.
She could finally see everything just as she had always wanted, including her
boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you
marry me?” The woman was shocked when she noticed that her boyfriend was blind
too and she refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears that day
and he never spoke to her again. One day the woman received a letter in the mail
and it said, “I love you, please take care of my eyes dear.”
This is how people change in the
world today. Only a few remember what life was like before and even fewer
remember who to thank for always being there even when times were painfully
unbearable. Life is a gift, love is a gift, let’s share it together. 1 John
4:7-8 – “Beloved let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not
God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:11 – “Beloved, if God so loved us, we
ought also to love one another.” John 17: 26
– “I made known to them your name and I will continue to make it known, that
the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
In telling this story
and reading these scriptures I want us to see that most people go through life
like the blind woman. When God bails us out and gives us eyes to see we turn
our backs on Him. In John 17:14-22, Jesus says as He is speaking to the
Father, “I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they
are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take
them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not
of the world just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in your truth, your
word is truth. As you sent me into the world so I have sent them into the
world. And for their sake I consecrate myself that they also may be sanctified
in truth. I do not ask for these only, but also for those (that is where we
come in) who will believe in me through their word (his disciples), that they
may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also
may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. (starting
v.24) Father, I desire that they also (us), whom you have given me, may be with
me where I am (at the right hand of God in heaven) to see the glory that you
have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O
righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and
these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name. And I will
continue to make it known that the love with which you have loved me may be in
them.” –Wow- how could you turn your back on a man like that? He is our ticket
to salvation, our only hope, our future together! Do you serve Him with all
your heart? He gave His life for us. What are we doing for Him? Read, pray,
turn from sin, and surround yourselves with people doing the same!
Prayer
Jesus, thank you for loving me and thank you
for giving me your eyes so that I can see! Love you man! In Jesus name, Amen
Thoughts:
Are we aware of
this: Our life is on the line! Psalms 145:20 – “The Lord preserveth all
them that love Him but all the wicked will He destroy.” Ephesians 6:24 –
“Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.” Amen
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