Immanuel Lutheran Church & School

I am reminded that love is something people show and do.  It is a feeling, but more importantly it continually needs to be shown .  People constantly need to see that someone loves them.  You can say, but if you don’t act it, then it is nothing.

There has been studies that have proven that love must be acted on to have power and effect.  Babies that are told they are loved, but aren’t hugged, picked up, and kissed will have significant loss of growth and development, possibly even loss of life.

Love is vital for us.  If it is vital for you and I toward one another, then wouldn’t it also be vital for you and I from our God.  God is love.  He continually shows us love.  We are reminded in Romans 5:6-8 that He loved us that He died for us, and His love continues as He calls us in baptism to be united in His love with Him. 

1 John 3:16 says: “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.”  We are loved by our God, and it is not done only in words, it is done in eternal action, as His death happened once and for all for us, and His resurrection victory was proclaimed and named for each of us as His children.  You are loved by God.  Praise be to our God for His great love. 

God loves you!