Can We Ever Love Like God Does?

The Last Supper- John August Swanson

On the night that he was betrayed, Jesus shared bread and wine with his close friends…a symbolic Passover meal, and yet one like no other. With a new metaphor they didn't yet understand, he tried to explain (again), that his love was so great, he was giving his body and blood - his life. 

“Do this in remembrance of me”, he said.

We will do this on Sunday, and read about human love from the letter of Paul to the Corinthians 13. 1-7 (MSG)

​​If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Paul is pretty clear here that nothing is as important as love…not what we say, what we believe or what we do. 

Why is love so hard for us?  Can we ever love enough?

Can we ever love like God does? Can we grasp the size of God's love for us that he would die for us and then continue to love us despite our failure to love?

Come and experience the Lord's compassionate mercy at his Table on Sunday, as we gather for Holy Communion and Worship. (10AM in the Dogwood Room)

Open our hearts Lord

Help us to love like you

Open our hearts Lord

Help us to love

       - Jesse Manibusan