John 15:9-14 Recently we went to Karaoke with some of our students. I found the gospel section. “He’s got the whole world in His hands.” I was singing about the magnificent God we serve.We were given a thick book full of songs and I noticed there were so many love songs. A lot of songs are written by a person to express their love to another person or by a person desiring love. “When I fall in love.” “I want to know what love is; I want you to show me.”
Everybody desires love. We need to know we are loved, that we are wanted. In John 3:16 Jesus said, “God so loved the world.” God loves this crazy world we live in and he loves you. The God that made you loves you. He hasn’t abandoned you to just worship an idol or at a shrine. He wants to have a relationship with you. He wants you to know him. Many people go to the shrine or temple and have no real connection with anything, just a superstition that tells them if you come here and pray you may get blessed. Well in Jesus we have love and purpose of life.
John 15:13 This is the greatest form of love; to sacrifice oneself for another. And Jesus has done this. Though he was despised and rejected by this world He loved this world and gave Himself for it.
Do you want to know great love? It’s not in a Karaoke song. It’s not in having a boy say, “I love you” and giving you flowers or a girl saying “I love you” and giving you chocolates. It’s in laying your life down for another. He has shown you the highest form of love.
If you don’t know Jesus he is calling to you; He wants you to know Him. He wants to give you hope in your life. He loves you and wants you to have a fulfilled life.
