Love

Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

I think this verse is pretty clear and self-explanatory. Not really all that much to say here, so I will just re-iterate what I said a few days ago. Faith is the way we experience our relationship with Jesus – if we have a relationship we have faith, and if we have faith in Christ we have a relationship with Him. It is not mere head-knowledge that constitutes faith in Jesus – it’s deeper than that.
That relationship, at its most basic level, is expressed through love. We could boil the entire Bible down to that one word. Love. God made us to love us. He gave us a choice so that we would truly love Him. He loved us so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to earth for us. Jesus loved us so much that He suffered and died for us after living a perfectly blameless life. In love, He pursues and woos us into a love relationship, through faith. We are to love Him enough that we obey Him. We are to love Him with all that we have, and all that we are – with our minds, our hearts, our bodies, our souls – our thoughts, our emotions, our physical bodies, and our spirit. And because of His love for us, and our love for Him, we will overflow onto those around us, loving our friends, our enemies, our family, our neighbors. Everyone we come into contact with should sense the love flowing from our very pores. Not our love. The love of Christ Jesus. It is as if we are a conduit, a hose, and when we are hooked up to the source, we can’t help but pour out that which is being poured in.
Let’s look to Jesus today, and ask Him to fill us with His love, to pour our His love to us and through us to each and every person we come into contact with. And after today, let’s do the same thing tomorrow. And the next day. Until each-and-every-day we are spreading the love of Jesus to a needy, yet unsuspecting world!