OUR LOVING AND PROTECTIVE SAVIOUR

“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.”

Jeremiah 31:3 KJV

Have you ever asked God to forgive you for losing your temper and then lost your temper again?  I have done that and it breaks my heart when I fail Him and hurt Him.  We need to ask Jesus to help us.  When we fail God and hurt Him then Jesus intercedes for us with our Heavenly Father.  Jesus loves us unconditionally.

When Jesus was here on earth, He was ridiculed, cursed and beaten beyond recognition for our sins.  What a Saviour!  What a Friend, this Jesus of Nazareth!  Jesus loved us yesterday.  He loves us today and He will love us forever.  There is nothing we could ever do that would make Him stop loving us.

Knowing that Jesus loves us unconditionally and that He will love us forever should make us want to do everything we can to make Him happy.  How do we make Him happy?  We make Him happy by being kind and loving to one another.  Are we making Jesus happy or are we hurting Him by our words and actions?

Jesus tells us in Matthew 25:40 that what we do to others, we also do to Him so when we are kind and loving to others we are being kind and loving to Him.  However, when we are not kind and loving to others, we are not kind and loving to Him.  May God help us to love others as Jesus has commanded us to love.

Joanne Lowe

February 6, 2016