A Chosen Remnant

Investing love

For some odd reason I like reading about investors, investments and generally I will read a good business article. It's an unlikely hobby I enjoy. I like reading about people who are now rich because they invested in things everyone despised at the time only to be proven wise years later for their shrewd financial move. It's really intriguing and for those of you that do like business stories entrepreneur.com is a good one to check out.

In any case,investments are always deemed to be good because there is a supposed profitable end result. So we invest in our education, we invest financially in companies that are doing well or in ones that we believe will do well in the near future, we invest time into learning activities that mean a lot to us and the list goes on. Somehow and someway, we all make investments into one thing or another. Since we are supposed to be like Christ (because after all, we are called Christians, right?) shall we look at how God invests?

• For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son....John 3:16
• ...because He first loved us -I John 4:19
• Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins- I John 4:10

Here is a personal favorite of mine. I sometimes just cannot believe how much God loves me. Literally !

• Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that (once again) loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,nor principalities, nor powers,nor things to come, nor things present,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.- Romans 8:37-39

When God chose to love us, He did not just say "I love you" and leave it at that. He did not hand out a few bars of candy or dole out a few wads of cash to show His love. When God chose to love us, He loved us with His Son. He gave up the ultimate object of His affect :Jesus Christ. On the cross, Jesus cried and asked the Father why He had forsaken Him. God had to forsake the dearest One to His heart in order to win our love. He gave the best of the best kind of gift so that you and I would never have to feel as rejected as Christ did when He died on that cross. God was willing to do anything to let you know how much He loves you.He made an investment that none of us would ever be able to pay back, no matter how hard or how long we tried.

If this is how much God loved us and if we are to be true followers of Christ, then this is my question : how are we investing love in other people ? God gave us His best before we were even aware of what we needed. He did this knowing that some would come running into His arms of pure love while others would reject His love and call it a myth. THAT should be our blueprint for love. No questions, "ifs", "ands" or "buts" or about it.