His Love Is Our Beginning

From the beginning of time to eternity to come, His love is the unseverable thread that holds it all together.

February’s Awakening, Day 1

Thus I was taught that love is our Lord's meaning, and I saw most certainly in this and in all things that before God made us He loved us; this love was never diminished nor shall it ever be. And in His love He has accomplished in all His works; and in this love He has made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our creation, we had a beginning, but the love out of which He made us was always within Him. In this love we have our beginning and in all this we shall see God eternally.

 —Julian of Norwich

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I founded empires; but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

 —Napoleon 

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 NIV

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 NIV 

            We were conceived in love in the mind of God to love and to be loved. We were born out of the creative word He spoke, only to rebel against Him. In love, God sent His Son to be the propitiation, the substitute, for our sin. In love, Christ bore the fullness of the wrath of God’s judgment of sin upon Himself, so that we might live to love.  With the fullness of love, Christ has ascended into heaven to prepare a wonderful place for us and promises to return to take us home soon. When we finally get home, it will be then that we fully understand and appreciate what God’s love for us was all about.