You Wanna Know What Love Is?

For some reason, I had the words of the popular song, "I Want to Know What Love Is," in my head today. So of course, I had to YouTube it to get my fix.

"I want to know what love is.
I want you to show me.
I want to feel what love is.
I know you can show me."

In reality, this is the desire of the whole world. We want to know and feel that we are loved. Sadly, many of us will run to anything that will meet our desire for love, not knowing that eventually it will not deliver. Friends will betray us, spouses will die, the drugs & alcohol will wear off, the kids will move out, the house will decay, and when times are the hardest, no one will be there for us. Nothing will ever fully satisfy the desire of our hearts - to fully & completely know and feel loved forever... except the One who gave up everything for you.

Jesus Christ will never leave you nor forsake you. He will never die, leaving you feeling alone. He will never betray you, leaving you to fend for yourself. He will never lie to you. He will be your rock and your shelter in times of need. He will love you completely, despite your many sins.

You wanna know what love is?

• "By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us." - 1 John 3:16
• "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." - 1 John 4:9-10
• "For God so loved the world, that we gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16