I Done It For Love

A mother asked her seven-year-old son to clean her shoes. He meticulously cleaned and shined the shoes and was rewarded with a quarter. When she went to put on her shoes, the mother felt something in the toe of one. She reached in and found the quarter wrapped in a little note, which contained her little boy’s scribbled words: “You can keep the quarter, I done it for love.” Larry Hatfield explains, ” ‘I done it for love’ may raise no spire and build no steeple, but it is always a cathedral where God dwells. A choir can be assembled by persuasion and trained by expertise, but music is a child of love. A sermon can be drafted with calculation and delivered with precision, but a message from heaven is heard only where there’s love.”*

God’s work in rescuing a lost and sinful world could be summed up in the words of the young lad above: “I done it for love.” Note how often the Bible emphasizes this crucial theme. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). “But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit…” (Titus 3:4–5). “By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9).

There are more verses, but these should make the point. Given the fact that God did it for love, is it any wonder that we, as disciples, should be known for the love we have for each other (John 13:35)?

God loves you!

Mike

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