Cost of Love.

Valentines day is just around the corner. Millions of people will spend millions of dollars on chocolate, flowers, cards, food just to show their significant other that they love them. Our human version of love and what we think that we need to spend to show it.

God has different ways to show us His love and the cost.

John 3:16 New Living Translation

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

God loves us so much and cares for us so much. It only cost Him His Son. Can you imagine God calling you and saying "Keven, we need you to sacrifice your daughter for the greater good of the world." I would be like, "umm, I don't think so." I'm not willing to pay that price. That cost is too high. But that is what God did for us. He gave His only Son. For us. So that we could have eternal life.

John 15:13 Amplified Bible

13 No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.

How many of you are willing to lay down your life for your friends? I may not have died physically, but I have absorbed some of the punishment that was meant for my friends. Things that they really would have gotten in trouble for. I ran interference for them. Deflected some of the blame to myself. Even though I didn't really have anything to do with it. I loved my friends and didn't want to see them get in trouble. So by loving our friends, it may cost us our lives! Is that a price you are willing to pay?

So no matter how much we think that we need to spend to show our love to each other. Consider what God has done for us, in showing us His love.

John 13:34 New Living Translation

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

So let's walk this out. Let's love each other just as Jesus has loved us. No better example of love to follow.

1 Corinthians 13:13 Amplified Bible

13 And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love.

Love and God Bless!