Think About His Love

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By Benedict Chua, 19, Singapore

Our compassion for each other stands in stark contrast to the way God loves.

When someone is unwilling to let us in, we simply tell him, “That’s enough. You’re on your own!” When someone chooses to find meaning in godless ways, we will try to pursue him back until we find that he is not going to change in the near future—then we give up. When we find that someone is ostracized by his peers, we simply leave him behind and secretly say to one another, “He’s weird.” This is what we call “effort”, “attempt” and “love.”

The truth is: we are frustrated and exasperated because we loved the person little. We loved ourselves a lot more. We look at our time, effort, energy and motivation as highly precious commodities that should not be wasted. But yet Love gave His Son—which was an overpayment for our guilt! The Son of God gave His life away, in exchange for our pitiful ones.

That is the compassion of Christ. It is a compassion that looks beyond our failures and who we appear to be, and to who we really are and who we really can be—and that perpetually keeps us in its embrace of acceptance while awaiting that victorious day.

It is a compassion that understands we are not all the same, we don’t all walk the same journey, but we all need a relationship with our Lord and Savior.

And the fact is: we can’t love like the way He loves, unless we let Him in. Apostle John exhorts us: “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us” (1 John 4:11).

The only way for us to grow in our love for one another is when we grow in the depth of our appreciation of God’s love toward us. Today, as songwriter Don Moen puts it, let us . . .

Think about His love, think about His goodness
Think about His grace that’s brought us through
For as high as the heavens above
So great is the measure of our Father’s love
Great is the measure of our Father’s love
So great is the measure of our Father’s love

How could I forget His love
And how could I forget His mercies
He satisfies, He satisfies, He satisfies my desires

Think about His love, think about His goodness
Think about His grace that’s brought us trough
For as high as the heavens above
So great is the measure of our father’s love
Great is the measure of our Father’s love

Great is the measure
Great is the measure
Great is the measure
Great is the measure of our Father’s love
Great is the measure of our Father’s love

And then, let us go forth and love one another.