June 05, 2026
Love Forever
Our June Chapel speakers brought us a good word from 1 Peter 1:22-23. During this “ordinary time” of our church calendar, we were brought an extraordinary task – to love others, forever.
First, our speaker challenged us to describe, “What is love?” Not the loving cheesecake kind, or even the saying it to another person kind. But to really press in to what it means to actively love others.
Naturally, we need help with loving. We can’t obey the command to love, not on our own at least. But, as we learn in verse 22, since our souls have been purified, now we can really love others. Just as the Old Testament priests were called to consecrate and purify their outside before they met with God; so too, God sanctifies our souls so that we can now love. (Earlier in 1 Peter 1: 2 we were “sprinkled with his blood”.)
Love in the new family
This type of love is a sincere brotherly love (Philia) unhypocritically, fervent love from a pure hear. After all, we all came with empty hands. And we will go out the same.
Before closing, we looked together at 1 Corinthians 13. This is the true meaning of love. And we have the command, obligation, and free well to now go and do likewise with our new family, for all eternity.
Not only are we called to love, but with this new inheritance we’ve been freely given, is a call to love our brothers and sisters as Christ did. After all, we are stuck with this new family for eternity; so might as well start acting like it now. 🙂
In conclusion, let’s focus NOW on what lasts FOREVER. Love never ends. Thanks be to God.
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