“In This
Is Love” by Melanie Rigney (@melanierigney)
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. (1
John 4:10)
Lord, every nation on earth
will adore you. (Psalm 72:11)
Then, taking the five
loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke
the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; he also
divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. (Mark 6:41-42)
Piety
Father, open my eyes wider still to
the power of Your love.
Study
How much does God love us? We get
the lyrical answer in today’s first reading: So much that He sent His son to
pay for our sins, not because we’d been so faithful or well behaved, or even
because we loved Him. Nope. He did it because He loved us that much.
Let that roll around in your soul
for a little bit. File it away for the next time someone is working your last
nerve, so you remember that God loves that person that much too.
How much does Jesus love us? We get a
practical example in today’s Gospel reading. All he wanted was for the crowd to
disperse after a long day so he and the apostles could rest. But he knew that
mass of humanity was hungry, and the disciples were proving less than creative
on how to deal with that. So Jesus fed them. He overfed them when you get right
down to it.
But that’s how love works, right?
With human love, one person almost always loves a little be more than he or she
is loved; relationship dynamics shift. With God, it’s a constant: He will
always love us. He will always love us more than we love Him. We cannot out love
God, to paraphrase a friend. But I suspect He finds delight when we try.
Action
Make your prayer today a love letter
to God.
Image credit is: Giovanni Lanfranco
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