Gospel Reflections #448: You are loved so now you love

1 Corinthians 2:2 “For I was determined in my heart to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, even Him crucified."

We may be trying to communicate God in many different ways, putting a lot of effort into words and methods of communication.

But God's way is "as I have loved you, so love ye men," and "as I have done to you, so do ye to men.

This means that we must first have the experience of having God do it for us.

Jesus released us from the burden of our sins on the cross. But before that, Jesus endured in Gethsemane an agony that no human being could ever endure.

There is no greater love anywhere.

Instead of focusing our efforts on evangelism methods and strategies, we need to focus on what God has done for each of us, what kind of relationship we have with God, and the many experiences of God's extraordinary love in our everyday, ordinary lives, which we can then share as needed.

God prepares whom we talk to and when we talk to them.

We are so connected to God that we exude a faint fragrance of God that we are not even aware of.

This is not something we can create with effort, but something God gives us, and it exudes from within the given.

The gratitude, joy, and hope you feel for God today cannot be hidden away inside of us. It will spread fragrantly to the whole world like the air.

AUTHOR'S BIO: This Gospel Reflections page is written by Masae San, who resides in Hiroshima, Japan. Masae is a dedicated student of the Bible with a deep passion for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She shares her daily reflections on Gospel perspectives to reach out to others and spread the message of God's true love through a Christ-centered approach. We are sharing her insights here so that you, too, can experience the joy that comes from knowing and understanding the true Gospel and the love of God through Jesus Christ.