I have been seriously challenged these last couple of weeks through my readings and through life in general. Why do I do what I do? Especially when things don't seem to be working out...can't I just can it? Throw in the shovel?
Simple answer = Christ.
He didn't give up. Even when the whole world turned against Him, He persevered. He walked the road to Calvary. Why? Because of love. Because His Father loves. Because His Father loves you and I. Because of His Father's love, Christ walked a path few today choose to follow whole-heartedly. However, there are those who still do. Will I/you be one of those? Am I/Are you prepared to love so much so as to lose my/your life for the sake of love?
John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."
God helping me, in the big things and, particularly, in the small, I will live a life of love. The following is a poem I wrote on Sunday morning, May 15, 2011. May you be blessed and challenged by it.
A Life of Love
Through all the trials and pain,
Bearing my sin and shame,
God showed His love.
He gave His only Son
So that I might learn
How to love.
To love as Christ loves the Church;
To lay my own will down;
To give of all that is within me
For the sake of a Heavenly crown.
To forfeit my own desires
For those of my Father above;
To live the life of a bondservant -
A life of servitude with love.
Some take it for granted -
Expecting nothing less
Than to be loved.
But, it's a two-way street,
For He first loved us,
And He wants our love.
For us to love Him so much more
Than we love ourselves;
To have a love found deep within us -
A love which Christ's love, in us, compels.
Compels us to give all we have -
In patience, in joy, in suff'ring.
Though others may not respond in love,
Our love we give - an offering.
Not for the sake of pride
But because of the cross -
That's why we love.
Our debt was paid that day.
Our sins were washed away.
No greater love!
There was nothing left undone;
No stone was left unturned.
His pursuit for perfect communion -
A long-term goal for which He had yearned.
His love now reigning within us,
Comes with a command from above:
No matter whatever, wherever -
We are to live a life of love.
© Stephen Khu
15-05-2011
