How Worldly Love Compares To Biblical Love

“So I began with the hardest one: my Dad. He was reading the newspaper when I approached him.” “Dad…” “Yes,… what?” “Dad, I would like to talk with you.” “Well, talk.” “I mean….it’s really important.” His newspaper came down three slow inches. “What is it?” “Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that.”

“The newspaper fluttered to the floor then my father did two things I could never remember him ever doing before. He cried and he hugged me. And we talked all night, even though he had to go to work the next morning. It felt so good to be close to my father, to see his tears, to feel his hug, to hear him say that he loved me.”

“It was easier with my mother and little brother. We shared the things we had been keeping secret for so many years. I was only sorry about one thing; that I had waited so long. Here I was, in the shadow of death and I was just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been close to.”

“Professor Powell you were right, God found me.”

Professor Powell asked Tommy to do him a favor. He said, “Tom, when I had you in my class you were a real pain. But you can make it all up to me now. Would you come into my present Theology of Faith course and tell them what you just told me? Tom said he would think about it and give the professor a call.

A few days later Tommy called and said he was ready and they set a date for Tommy to come and talk to the class. Tommy never made it. He had another appointment, far more important than the one with the class. Tommy made a great step of faith into the very presence of God. His life was not ended, only changed.

Worldly love is conditional. God’s love is unconditional. God’s love reaches out to all of us here this morning. All we have to do is reach out and accept it by faith. Have you said “yes” to God’s love? If not you can do so today.

Let’s pray

Invitation – “More Love to Thee O Christ” # 363