Minister’s Corner: A life of love

Paul writes in Ephesians 5:1-2 KJV, “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.”
Christians are to live a life of love modeled on the love of God toward us. That is the challenge of the Christian life: to live a life of love that is modeled on the love of God to us. Human love tends to love the lovely, the loving and the lovable. Divine love loves the unloving, the unlovable and the unlovely. There’s the difference.
Christians believe this. Because they believe this, they take seriously this tremendous challenge that Paul gives to us in verse one to be imitators of God and to live a life of love. This is a sacrificial lifestyle, and it is deeply pleasing to God. It is my desire, and I hope that it is yours, to be pleasing to God by demonstrating love to everyone.