As someone rightly said, “There’s a God-shaped vacuum in man that nothing else can fill but God.” The Bible says in 1 John 4:16 “God is love” meaning that the hunger, craving and deep-seated desire of man is actually for the kind of love only God can give. Wealth, entertainment and worldly thrills cannot fill this desire. The world can only offer temporary relief to the pains and misery people face in life and that’s the reason the Lord Jesus told the woman at the well, “…Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again…” (John 4:13). Thank God He offered a solution when He later said, “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14), Hallelujah!
As Christians, we’re not only loved by God, the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us (Romans 5:5). That means we can now love those around us with the same kind of love God has for us. This is agape - love that goes beyond the barriers of every wrong. 1 John 4:10 says, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” This is a supernatural kind of love and we’re the only ones who can extend it to our world, because the Holy Spirit lives in us and gives us the ability to do so. Since the world is not familiar with this kind of love, they may think you’re naïve or crazy when you show it. Some may even call you a weakling and many other insulting names but remember that you’re operating the greatest power in the universe.
“There are three things that remain – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13 TLB). Your hope may fail, even your faith may fail you if it’s weak, but love never fails.
