God's Love

The pastor talked of God's great love for us. He told a story about a 12 year old boy he met once. The boy had gotten into some trouble. The pastor told him he didn't know what to say except that God loves him no matter what he has done. The boy looked at him and said that no, no one loved him. That he didn't know what love was. The pastor said to look into the eyes of someone who doesn't know of love is unlike anything else. I believe it's one of the many reasons to always be kinder than necessary. You can never give too much of the gift of love and you may be giving it to someone who has never before been shown it. He also talked about how we are being jolted out of our little worlds full of all of our money and nice things, because of the way of the economy. Always trying to get to that new car, that new house, to making more and more money. Always trying to find happiness in the things of the world. You may find some but it's only temporary. We're always looking to be happier if we've got this, got that, when what we really need is simple enough. Something we already have to give. Love. There are all these ideas and the technology out there, always trying to make the world better. Is it? No, it's not. It only gets worse and it's because we don't remember what's really important. Faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and to love. To always love. Another great part of church today was the children's sermon. From what I've seen, it looks as though members of the church take turns doing this. An older gentleman did it today. He brought lots of props with him. He took a glass and poured water into it. He talked of how we need water to live and showed how it's so clear and good. We have that water streaming through us when we invite Jesus into our hearts. At some point though, we all falter. And things such as anger, hate, greed, bitterness, envy, etc., we dump those things into our water. He demonstrated this by pouring different things into the glass such as tabasco sauce, chocolate syrup, lemon juice, etc., which clouded and dirtied the water. None of the kids took him up on his offer of a sip, ;o). So what can we do once we've mucked up our water? Ask Jesus to forgive us and cleanse us. He will pour His love into you and you can be clean again. He demonstrated this by taking a pitcher and pouring water into the glass overflowing until the water was again clear (he had a big container underneath to catch the water.) I thought it was an amazing visual demonstration of God's love and what He can do for us even when we mess up.

-ladyworpledinker