True Love
His banner over me was love (Song of Solomon 2:4) Ladies, do you remember telling your fortune with a flower? Holding it in your hand, plucking off the petals one by one while counting off “he loves me”, “he loves me not”? The last petal and statement was supposed to tell how a certain boy felt about you. Sometimes, I’m afraid, in our thinking we apply something similar to that to how God feels about us. On our good days,when we are kind and thoughtful and useful --”He loves me”, while on the days when we are unkind, thoughtless, and surly--”He loves me not”. When we are energetic and productive--”He loves me”. But let a day go by when we feel listless and accomplish very little--”He loves me not”. According to the Bible, this is not an accurate description of God’s love. There we find that God is love (I John 4:8) Not just that God loves, but that His very essence is love itself. In other words, it is His nature to love. It may be hard f...