DID THEY TELL HER

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”

John 14:1-4

King James Version

I watched the Homecoming Celebration for Dottie Rambo on the internet yesterday.  I have watched it several times in the past and as I heard all the loving and wonderful things they said about her the thought came to me did they tell her?  Did they tell Dottie how much they loved her and what she meant to them while she was alive?  We can’t tell people how much we love them after they die.

I think that we are sometimes like the man who said “I don’t have to tell my wife I love her.  I married her so she should know I love her”.  I am so glad that Jesus isn’t like that man who said his wife should know he loves her because he married her.  Jesus tells us every day that He loves us as He reassures us that He loves us.  Evangelist Charles Weigle wrote one of my very favorite hymns “NO ONE EVER CARED FOR ME LIKE JESUS”.     

“Every day He comes to me with new assurance, More and more I understand His words of love; But I'll never know just why He came to save me, Till some day I see His blessed face above. No one ever cared for me like Jesus; There's no other friend so kind as He; No one else could take the sin and darkness from me - O how much He cared for me!”

I’m so glad the words in this hymn are true because if Jesus didn’t tell me every day that He loves me, I would go to bed and stay there.  However, we do know why Jesus came to save us.  The Bible tells us why He came to save us.  We read in the Bible.  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

If anyone ever asks you who Jesus is, tell them “Jesus is love, unconditional love”.  Not only does Jesus give love, He is love.  Do you realize what a privilege it is to be loved by the Saviour of the world?  I think sometimes we treat Him like He is a puppet.  We put Him on a shelf and only take Him down when we need something.  How we must hurt Him and break His heart at times.

It is not enough to tell our spouse, our children and our loved ones that we love them one time.  It is very important that we tell them often that we love them and then prove that we love them by our actions.  Words don’t mean anything unless they are backed up by our actions.  Do your family and friends know you love them?  How often do you tell them?  May God help us to be kind and loving to our family, to our loved ones and to all we meet.

Joanne Lowe

August 15, 2019