Love is Adoption; First John

May the mumbling commence!

What observations can we make about love from First John?  Love is indeed an important concept.  Love is about choice not based upon result.  Read again from the beginning of First John chapter three, where love is first mentioned in a positive way:

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. (Verses 1-3)

Love starts with God.  Love is adoption without reservation.  God knows us as we are yet chooses to adopt us as children.  Only God know what we will become.  It is hidden from our eyes.

But all that is hidden will eventually be made known.  When Christ comes again, we will know our true natures because we will see Jesus as he really is.  No more weak constructions of our own – we will know Jesus face to face.

Such an awesome love that God has for us!  The Lord sees not where we are but sees where we can be.  And God invites us down the path He constructed for us.  God has made His choice.  Now, we must make our choice.  Will we choose to take the path God has created before us?

Love is adoption without reservation and without any guaranteed success.  Rejection is an ever present specter when one chooses to love.  Will we make that choice to return the love of the Father?

If we do make that choice, the world will see the beauty of mature godly love!

May it be so!

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out