WE NEED TO TELL THEM

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

Jeremiah 31:3 KJV

A man said “I don’t have to tell my wife I love her.  I married her so she should know I love her”.  If Jesus didn’t tell me every day that He loves me, it would break my heart.  He does tell me and He tells you every day that He loves us.  Our spouses, our children and our loved ones need to know Jesus loves them.

Someone said “I’ve heard my parents tell people that Jesus loves them but they have never told me Jesus loves me”.  It doesn’t matter if we teach Sunday school, preach, sing about Jesus or write about Jesus, it is very important and even urgent that we tell our loved ones that Jesus loves them.

If someone had told me that Jesus loves me when I was going through that devastating crippling depression that I went through for forty years, I would not have been depressed that long.  Preachers came to the hospital and held services but none of them said “Jesus loves you”.

It’s important that we tell our spouses, children and families that we love them but it is much more important that we tell them that Jesus loves them.  We don’t know what dark valleys they are going through.  We only know what we see and what they tell us but Jesus knows and He wants them to know He loves them.

Joanne Lowe

July 10, 2017